Do We Need to Work 40 Hours a Week? 

OSHA PLZ You would have to alert to have noticed this. In reference to reaction time? Or how fast things can change?

Good video. Actually, the first to introduce this idea of fewer working hours was #Keynes in his short essay “Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren” where he says that we will work 15 hours a week by 2030. As we all know this will not happen. Why? Many factors, some are mentioned in this video. They are a few more factors who are will not allow this to happen. I will make a video about a similar topic. Overall very good video, EconomicsExplained continue your work :) Stay positive, stay inspired.

Can you do a video on the Economics of the Third Reich? I think they were Economically Socialist but I'm not a huge analyst in the subject so I'm not totally sure. A more in depth explanation of the economy would be great as you already did the Soviet Union's. Thank you!

@Asim Malik Oh, god... it's a Canadian!

I spend roughly 1-2 hours per MONTH on my real estate passive investments which generate $8000 of income every month. Legally pay $0 tax on it too. Everyone should be doing this. They won't, though.

It does as far as economists are concerned, anything that isn't work is leasure. It really isn't a system but around family at all.

@@kingrichardthe1st exactly, economics without some philosofy and/or sociology is just a tool; it was just a small critic, though, I appreciate the content

@@kingrichardthe1st nah, that's bulshit. Every chore can be considered during calculations and assigned value. All home chores do create real value for the economy, even though it's not explicitly rewarded by money. But yes, it can be estimated how much dollars each person produces by doing home chores and raising children. And it's an enormous amount of value that doesn't show up in GDP figures, but we can all feel the impact of it on the economy

@@kingrichardthe1st "The bourgeoisie has torn away from the family relationship its sentimental veil and has reduced it to a mere money relationship" - Marx

​@@ttuliorancao And of course the enormously absurd generation of fictitious capital _does_ show up in GDP, despite _obviously_ being financial overhead nonsense. And yes pedants, fictitious capital does indeed have a non-fictitious affect, but only through its unquestioned systemic legitimization (like, say, adding it to GDP). Although, the first statement...I disagree...and it seems like so do you. If it's not measured monetarily through a market medium considering labor time or something...then how is it measured? I mean yes, you _could_ conceive of "a way", but for it to like...have any relative useful purpose would, to me, seem to increase alienation from family even _further_ which is saying quite a lot. In other words, the market is, in my opinion, a grotesque distortion of human social interaction. The market can put a price on anything but determine the value of nothing.

Real. Most days I would wake up, go to work, go home and then be too tired to do anything and go to sleep

I only sleep for 2 hours so... xD

@@kazykamakaze131 I kind of envy that, I'll never get to experience a cat nap. 😂

@@kazykamakaze131 Hopefully they're giving you enough time to rest, no amount of money is worth long term mental strain.

@Tsumuro It's not the "elite" that drives your work, it's your spending.

Then you are looking a scummy places. By law you must be given lunch time and should be included in full time employment.

7-16 is the norm in Sweden. 1 hour payed break in total.

My hours are 8.30 to 4.30. 30 mins break.15 mins break. 10 min travel time to work. Not paid for lunch. 37.5 hours

@Exocentric I think this only applies to certain jobs now. A lot of office jobs have gone remote and adopted goal orientated work schedules. I do think the 9-5 is starting to become obsolete in many industries especially office based. It will be interesting to see how work schedule are going to change in the near future. I wouldn't mind working 9-5 if the profit split was better in the business. But working 9-5 and no payed overtime and the CEO take a couple million extra each year is a bit ridiculous to say the least.

I do 10:00 to 18:15 with 1 hour break. So 7.25 hrs a day. On the other hand I can't skip the hour lunch and go home early, so it's still an hour lost on having lunch which is time that could be spend on other things.

Its so much better to just dig in and get it done.

It depends. The ideal is enough to be busy so that you can work at a decent pace all through the day. The second is your situation because the worse situation is having unrealistically targets. I’ve worked in jobs where the bosses just decided to triple our workload. So you work harder and harder and smarter until you cannot find any more efficiency. Everyone starts working later and later. You start meeting colleagues at the weekend to do the work that wasn’t finished during the week. Then you start having mental health issues. You and everyone else leaves. Your employer finds new idiots to screw over. They last half the time you and your colleagues do. Rinse and repeat and staff turnover is extremely high. Your ex boss approaches you and asks you to work there again. You refuse as you have a better job. But now you have anxiety as you held onto previous job too long and you’ve rewired your brain.

It's true for offices too. You get emails trickling in throughout the day... you can't make a complete to-do list because much of what to do is dependent on when client's email or call you (and of course, it's all unpredictable what it will be).

Sounds like the ER. Nothing to do unless people are out getting run over by buses, crashing their motorcycles and whatnot... I spend much of my night shifts watching RU-vid. But then again I work shifts, not a steady 9-5.

woah, that's bad, but it's not that simple

Not this year. 🤭

Especially if you're working a closing shift, kinda hard to get those 8 hours of leisure.

Probably have one hour getting ready for work, one hour getting to and from work, one hour lunch which you probably aren't paid for, one hour cooking dinner plus chores. You probably only have 4 hours which can actually be used for activities you choose. Half the lie you're told.

coolbanana165 sometime they give you unpaid work to do in your home too. Its a lot of bullshit. Especially when they don’t pay overtime.

I leave home at 6:30am and get home around 5:00pm. 10 1/2 hours away from home. Only 8 1/2 hours of that is spent on the clock.

It's filler. The discussion is not stock.

SD uhm ok. Did I say the discussion is stock (whatever that would mean)?😂

It's so beautiful

*stonk footage

spiffing brit is a strong challenger to that claim

I paused and looked for this comment.

Well at lest there was no micro transaction involved.

Hilarious!

Haha

Same

Luckily, as a teacher, this is my routine. There is stress, specially with some specific students, but it is a great job and it doesn't seem to affect career that much, because there is no difference between a teacher that has 2 hours per day and a teacher that has 8 hours per day of classes. It is seasonal, though, so you need to plan the whole year, because November and December have too little students, so you earn a lot less, but January there is a lot of new students, so you can basically work as much as you want. Also, it is a remote job, so I don't even need to commute (with some few exceptions).

Sorry sir, that's too much common sense

They’re not ready to hear it Jbone!!!

In terms of transportation, it is also quite interesting how we tend to avoid to schedule our day by minutes. You would start your work day at 09:00, but if it was 09:09, it would feel strange and you would probably aim for 09:00 either way.

32 hours for the win! Every job I've had be it factory floor production or engineering department computer work, the excessive hours slow productivity and increase mistakes and accidents. Everyone is sleep deprived, injured, exhausted, in pain and distracted. We are just dragging ourselves through the day instead of showing up refreshed and alert. So much time is spent correcting mistakes that would have never happened if people worked less.

haha well you know now that you are a special outlier I suppose!

@@EconomicsExplained I've retired now, thankfully. In my last role, 40 hours was an easy week. That's teaching for you.

I know right?

Jablička yeah but you only work 3/4 of the year, it’s exactly what he was talking about with easy seasons and hard seasons

M J not necessarily. Some jobs require constant work

That's like getting nine women pregnant to get a child delivered in one month...

@@alvaro8914 Or like asking your roommate to help you out, so you can cook Minute rice in 30 seconds.

Dude Accountants have it rough take a look HR.

Yes, five “quarterly” reports. Like trilogies in four parts. Three twins, a pair of triplets. Two-legged quadruped. A two-headed snake born with just ONE head.

Accountant speaking, I'm sorry but that is wrong, they just ask for MORE reports, more in-depth analysis. "Oh hey Stephen, we're creating a new division. You're going to be the accountant for that."

teachers and professors generally get a decent deal w their breaks, as most of the time profs/teachers can have a set curriculum that they go thru, w most of time being spent on grading, logistics, etc. Obvi varies a lot, and esp for younger teachers it isn’t so set, but having a whole season off is realllll nice

Going to the bar is free time

@@cookiecakeeater6340 haha sure but I don’t think going to the bar is enough free time to balance out the work wk. particularly cause most of our unpaid leisure time is spent preparing for work or leaving it

But.. where's your physical exercise time in all of that?

@@joshuasinclair4463 lol most people don't. I'm trying to add it in..... But my job is so mentally stressful. 😅

Manufacturing labor work week looks like this> 12hr. days three weeks straight, 1 weekend off then rinse/ repeat.

yeah its not ALL about wanting to be promoted, like he says in the video. Wages aren't high enough for people to work less. In most developed countries , the working and middle class are squeezed because the Billionaire class is avoiding its taxes. A society can still have tonnes of entrepeneurship , while taxing everyone their fair share !!

This argument can also be had from the other side, since most people like to slag off while working on a "per hour" basis. It's an old school mentality that has long been enforced by the social environment of the work place. The "Hey, you're getting paid per hour and not per piece, so slow down and stop making the rest of us look bad" notion is one of the first things you hear going into a work place as an eager young person. This is an outcome that is largely due to people not integrating new ideas into the work place correctly(i.e having to work full time in order to get benefits), and has cause confusion in society...

In US maybe but you are aware that this stuff works differently in other countries?

@Maykr Thank you so much. I fell like i'm a crazy person whenever i tell people this. almost every government contractor up charges the US Gov for every service because there is no scrutiny no oversight. and it's both parties fault. Democrats always just throw money at problems no matter how inefficient the system. Republicans remove oversight and regulation allowing systems to be inefficient.

Economists seems to have this huge bias toward fair/equal business models and purely economic theories. As shown in this video which assumes that most people are ambitious or companies doesn't hold most of the power in arranging how jobs work. His economic stuff is great, but he should be either avoid or properly get outside research/opinions like in "Is wealth inequality actually a problem?" and "Why are cold countries richer than hot countries?" Those two videos are cringey how off the mark they are in addressing the subject matter.

Lol where you do live? It’s 840am in the US east coast

It's 5 over here😅

where do u live? Just woke up lol

kefkapalazzo1 He may be living in Hawaii. It is nearly midnight there.

10:30pm Aest same time zone as the uploader

I can understand you well! I also had the problem of working too effectively at some jobs and thereby making the other employees look bad. never forget that automation mostly mean that jobs will be lost. I am currently happy in a small company where it is very much appreciated. my employer can take on more customers (the industry is doing well) and salaries are increasing. nevertheless we could all get by with 6 hour shifts... but in small companies, a sick leave is of course also quickly noticed and the time is then needed.

In all my jobs (many) I always managed to find efficient way never appreciated and stuck staring at screens for hours. Learnt to work slower or pretend in order to avoid getting bored/fired.

You sound like a beast bro, I'm sorry the system is so broken that you were punished for your efficiency and not rewarded. I'm gutted for you but glad you got out of a job with evidently moronic superiors

Weeb

@@BitchChill Otaku

i feel you

@@BitchChill Whats wrong with liking Japanese culture?

So real

lol "Our work schedule is completion based. If you get your work done early you can take it easy" *Assigns 80 hours worth of work per week and doesn't pay overtime*

@@appa609 price of success

@@arghonandi6818 "15% of your pay will be issued as series A shares to be released after 2 years. You might become a multi-millionaire!" Company values itself at 2M despite having no revenue or assets. Probably gonna go bankrupt in 3 years. Shares are unsellable.

@@OrobitoG the company I currently work for has a weird older setting where you can set personal arrangements and team leads and managers have a high degree of autonomy as long as their team does everything on time. Therefore most parents with young kids at the company went for 6 hours from home, with no break for the same salary. Some went with 6 hours flexible working hours, and some idiots just work 50-60 hours a week for the salary of 40 ... So people who are resourceful have a good time here, and timid people have a hard time ... I receive a salary for 40 hours and only give 40 hours of work.

Panopticon will ensure that slaves go BRRRRR (louder, harder).

Slaves are inefficient. Better to outsource :)

Am a wagie, can confirm

Yeah, everybody should own their own business with no other employees...

movement2contact have you heard of something called a worker co op?

try being at the other end of the age line, doing all the work the 23 year old does not do, due to him playing with his cell phone.

@@Delgen1951 ok boomer 🙄 looks like u never struggled trying 2 get a job

@@Jackson-nr2mw You have no idea how wrong you are.

@@Jackson-nr2mw really dude, you have no clue at all of how hard i have had to work to get jobs over my working life. No clue at all Oh golden one.

@@Delgen1951 and you seem clueless as to how pointless it is for younger age brackets to put their labor into the system. I’m 27 and still put the work in, but honestly can’t judge anyone for checking out of it. Companies barely pay enough to live on in today’s economy

if you need more work done hire more workers,then when the season with less demand for work comes,just fire them and rehire as neded,at least that what they do at amazon rather then offering part time hours :)))))

Then don't! I know not everyone can afford this. But honestly I think many many people can live without buying that new iphone or whatever (or choose a cheaper place to live) and work a little less. Creating a happier life. Money does next to nothing in that regard, the most important role of money is creating opportunity. And that is something that seems lost in this age of consumerism.

I still live with my parents but I work full time. Just learned a house epayment is like 800 on the low end a month. I cant afford that even though I'm saving. So yes. You do NEED to work extra

At what point do you realize you can't rely on handouts? Seriously if you came to me for a hand out, I would reach into my pocket and pull out a middle finger!

@@UnipornFrumm so how is someone constantly being laid off from work supposed to keep a roof over their head and stability in their life? You are stupid.

@@mr.boomguy It was a tone-deaf response one of their suits made on a reddit thread when being asked about some of their predatory game design tactics (i.e. microtransactions). It ended up being one of the most downvoted responses of all time on reddit.

Mr. Boomguy EA is the publisher for the star wars mmo named "star wars the old Republic". When it first came out, it was possible to either buy the locked heroes or you had to play thousands of hours to unlock them. Someone did the math and it would have taken thousands of dollars to unlock all the heroes or you could spend roughly 40 hours unlocking each hero. So someone on reddit made a post about how he had to pay ea 80 bucks to be given the opportunity to grind 40 hours for darth Vader. The pr team for ea responded by saying how they wanted players to feel a sense of "pride and accomplishment" written they unlocked heroes. But people called them out for being a greedy bunch of assholes. After this exploded online, ea came out and said they were getting rid of the p2w aspect.

@@vengefulspirit99 I'm pretty sure that the whole mess was about Battlefront 2, not the old republic, as it has nothing to do with Darth Vader or unlocking any "heroes"

Here is the original comment: www.reddit.com/r/StarWarsBattlefront/comments/7cff0b/seriously_i_paid_80_to_have_vader_locked/dppum98

​@@Sorcerers_Apprentice Not just "one of the most downvoted responses of all time"; it's THE most downvoted comment ever, and its -683000 karma count is almost 8 times as many as the second most downvoted comment.

If only this 30-35 hour week happened in the UK, by the time the commute is factored in a 40 hour week it's almost a 10 hour day or 50 hours a week.

My employer demands 8 hours a day but I notice a definite dropoff in productivity after 6.

but the downside is: you do 100 % of the work in 75 % of the time, but you only get paid for the 75 %

Depends whether you have a salary or are paid by the hour.

You boss also has responsibilities, you have none, when you go home you can relax, he will never be done

Hope you get caught and fired.

Close enough to the original song :)

@@Grivian uh...since when does everybody except the boss have no responsibilities? Literally everybody has responsibilities.

The boss has to do the least. That's why they're the boss. They get more money for less work. The poor worker will always have to take the heaviest load of effort.

I think it depends. In Japan, the US work ethic would be laughed at. In Europe, it is seen as horror. :D I do think there is a better way to be found, I just think we need to find it. Consuming less and saving more is one step.

Well if you're using quality of culture as a metric for quality of civilization, who's to say leisure is really what we need as a society? Perhaps longer work hours will lead to accelerated progress to the cosmos

@Blackpilled Saint capitalism is killing us

​@Bruno Pereira Criticizing capitalism dose not automatically make one a socialist

@@anarchogarfieldist1652 Correction: neoliberalism is killing us.

Common sense 101.

When you're on unemployment, how much time did you spend earning that money?

Time is money, he is not wrong you know..

@@5stardave Not sure if your from the states, but in canada everyone pays for unemployment. Comes off every check like 100 buck. No reason not to use it if u fall into a circumstance u need to.

Yes, especially in care, less hours would help so much. More people would be interested in this type of work if they weren't seeing everyone being burned out once they arrive, and also be less likely to find another type of career instead because they couldn't stand it anymore. Those cared for wouldn't feel like a burden of stressed out people. It's sad that despite so many countries saying they want to actively improve this situation, there is no consistent development and any improvement will be removed soon...

I mean this is no condescending manner, but I would really love to see your sources.

FUN FACT: If everyone worked 25% less and was paid 33% more per hours, prices of goods would most likely go up 33%. This is still a gain. You work 2 hours less (but more motivated) and everything else stays the same. Also gives people more time to spend money.

Exactly this! And it ties in with the basic income discussion. That could truly push us into a working revolution and crush this elephant in the room. These videos are great, but I think EE sometimes sees issues too separate while they are really tied together. He seems to understand this, but not incorporate these into his videos. Sure it might make the videos a bit more complex, but you would get to the root of the problem instead of hovering on the surface.

@Seven V cost of living is high in american cities because of rent. The problem is not cities - which are highly efficient settlements that reduce the physical resource costs of living - but demand imbalance of too many businesses, not enough residential buildings and not enough high density cities overall for a rapidly urbanizing population.

Not to mention that most people can only afford health insurance if the cost is supplemented by their employer. I live in NY and they have a tendency to hire people part time or per diem to avoid giving them benefits, all while giving them a "full time" schedule. Employers are always above employees and if a person doesn't fall in line, the market is so competitive, they will simply be replaced

Wages will not go up so long as large numbers of immigrants enter a job market. It's easy to see why because a vastly bigger supply of labor will reduce the buying costs of employers, particularly when immigrants have no qualms about working 40-hour weeks. Even Bernie Sanders admitted it when this line of thought was still politically tolerated.

Honestly i think thats a better analogy for insurance companies than for bankers. I mean, bankers DO give you the money the moment you need/ask for it.

@@mistrants2745 And even lends the umbrella when what you need is a storm bunker, and it's just a really bad idea to give the umbrella instead.

@@mistrants2745 Mark Twain would've been proud of you. Well done!

What relation does your statement have to the subject at hand?

@@cranberryeater7459 Nothing, the guy just wants to act like he's smart.

Also the Cow barbarians want to speak with you, have horn must moo!

In Germany work hours are regulated by law, yet when Tesla opened a factory here, there have been a lot of discussion about them trying to avoid those laws in every way they could.

you saying that honestly makes me sad since everyone I know works less than 40

I wanted to say the same thing

I'm 16

Everyone who is not an "adult with a job" vastly overestimates the difference between themselves and an "adult with a job", who is in fact you, at a job, wondering how their co-workers seem to know what they're doing

I’m 15 lol

Same here

calm down there Ron Swanson...

Lol, can't think better.

Coming back thanks to the gig economy. You’ll have the “right” to work 150 hours each week at multiple gigs simultaneously most of the time. Companies will love a work force that is paid entirely by piecemeal while accepting no downside risk. You’ll be told that you have FREEDOM.

😂

@@CarFreeSegnitz you'll also have freedom to work much less than 40 hours a week. And the freedom to work 70+ hours for a week and none for the other. A much better deal than what's now on the table thanks to the government tying healthcare with work, an ancient concept dating to the 40s.

Casual workers also have to be on call all the time.

job description and dutes as assigned !! ie anything the boss thinks of, also why are you stealing my money, get to work..

That's called a job!

@@Delgen1951 Do you know my duties? I am not stealing your money. Tell someone who's miserable enough to work for you to 'get to work' whatever that means.

@@corail53 That's not called a job.

Sooner access to healthcare becomes a right regardless of wealth the better off they become. Allowing people to change careers or retrain without having to think about health insurance will make an economy more efficient.

@@rwentfordable Luckily this is already reality in a large part of the world. Sadly it also isn't in another large part.

Some governments? ie USA only

Luckily in Europe, you get the same benefits regardless if you work part-time or full time.

@@189Blake When it comes to health care yes, but there are differences on how part time workers are treated from country to country, kind of sadly, there are still things to improve for sure!

@THAT BARCODE FELLOW I guess it also depends on the industry

@THAT BARCODE FELLOW What did you work? I think it could be something Outdoors like Fisherman, Worker on a Oilrig or something like that.

Good luck learning basic Finnish... 😏

Lol go to Netherlands for 20 hour per week work. People there also do farming, so this make sense.

@@movement2contact lol Finnish are fluent in English so get rekt

the four hour workday also appeals to people who are close to retirement, doing second income etc. My personal favorite would probably be 5 hour work day. I've worked out that is enough to comfortably survive off of and cover all my needs with enough spending cash left over for hobbies or the ability to save for bigger purchases.

Used to work for 3 to 6 hours a day for a year, but mostly it was 4. Despite being an insecure teenager back then, I would wake up very early, still looking forward to work, finishing every task as efficiently as I could. If it is paid in a way that one can live, it just seems like the perfect arrangement to me. Things get done, there is motivation and effort, life is good...

And pay them for 8 hrs?

no, each person works for 4 hours... maybe an extra half to prepare / debrief the next person. If you mean the amount: I'd have to calculate median monthly living costs in the area. I'd pay them that plus equity.

I worked at a place where I had to disclose if I had a 2nd job. They didn't specifically say you couldn't work a 2nd job. But they preferred that you didn't and tried to make it difficult for you.

When I was attending an evening school to get a better start into my career, there was someone who would get extra hours from his company once they found out when he went to evening school, exactly on those school days. They didn't want him to be more qualified on paper as they paid him the worst they could.

no nos expongan

Over reliance on an oil based economy, borrowed too much money, oil prices crashed, can't renegotiate their loans due to international (US) regulations. Basically the US refused to allow the IMF to help restructure their loans when they needed it most because of neocons being in charge of the funds. The same thing happened in Puerto Rico where an over reliance on a tourist based economy and over borrowing caused them to crash and the neocons in charge of the US refuse to help them restructure their debt. The IMF has taken a lot of heat for their role which has followed the conservative party of the US's ideology of Privatization of public services, reduction in government spending, and deregulation of business as the answer for everything and used Argentina as a means to push their agenda and hold it up as an example of what happens when you don't give them what they want.

They'll become a sub developed nation soon

Philippines are also in the same boat

we were never a developed country to begin with, bro.

I mean considering how poor the education system is in the US. It makes sense that teachers are mostly treated as Managers and Babysitters considering that's how the society views them.

Most of the time people who say they work long hours don't acctually do alot, most of the times I've worked in offices there's been meetings which don't mean anything and couldve not been done, and pretty much every retail job I've done managers and people stood around talking or sitting in the office doing not alot and there was no backlogs, but people didn't work themselves as hard as they say they do, people just had to look busy for the sake of saying they worked 12 hours a day, but they weren't acctually working in those 12 hours, I'd much rather get everything done as quickly as possible then go home to bed, or if there's alot to do then just pace till it's done, but if there isn't just get it done quick then go home. People always in a rush to go nowhere, usually if anyone says they work more than 10 hours a day they're probably lying, 10 hours a day is still a 45/50 hour week discounting breaks and if you work 6 / 7 days then it's 65/70

I wish I found something like this

That’s what they tell you to do. There’s always a leeway of working faster than they assume it takes, then go home when you feel like it, still get the stuff done, bill in the hours they expect you to put in, but you actually put in a little less hours but not tell anyone because who wants more work?? That’s the only way I know how to bypass the unfair system.

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how someone could survive working those kinda hours is beyond me

@@AT-AT26 they get the same amount of work done in double the time If you knew you weren't going to go home until 8 -9 at night you would pace yourself too

For Korea, I'd heard that you can't really go home before the boss. And the boss don't really want to go home that much earlier than the workers. Plus there's compulsory drinking sessions after work. So the work numbers are MUCH higher than what is officially shown. And those are already bad enough.

Japan laughs while dying of overworking, they basically live in the office.

In some places that's the minimum to even afford living there.

@@XGD5layer Pretty much this, believe it or not

Not all people are motivated by money. In all reality I could live well without working between my wife's career, my previous success and family wealth. I still work 90+ hours a week during construction season. I enjoy working and I view it as competition. My company is constantly competing with other firms for design and construction contracts. The opportunity to build better, faster and efficiently is exciting.

@@XGD5layer Then don't live there, lol. Get $100k from part-time work relatively near a home that's cheap to live in

@@fakeemail4005 Hard to find jobs like that in cheap places. The real trick is to save $10,000 of that each year, then take it somewhere cheap like Vietnam were you can buy a good house for a couple $10,000.

And a suit on 💀

Pride and accomplishment (TM)

Only the dead can know peace from work. :)

Exactly! Who works on a Sunday? No one ever!

Ridiculous. It should be 4-6's. You're being slaved.

Try doing 6x 11s lol

I agree

I work four 10s as well. Better but I'll be honest, 30 hour work weeks sounds about right to me

I like mg 4 tens, broken by one, then 2 days of rest. You’re off on the week and weekend. You’re always getting off of and going into your weekend. If you need a day off, the next day you work will be the only one before your next weekend. It’s lovely~

I would love to work that here in America

@@aliciaholsey572 be careful for what you wish for.

To clarify, I was referring to the hours and days a week ONLY..not the living wage part. Thanks for calling that out; I am with you.

Seriously what is up with them?

@@tanaymanerikar6503 I think it's a part of their culture, just like how their culture effected most of their entertainment.

Fun fact, Americans work more hours than the Japanese

Americans use 1780 hours/year at work while the Japanese work 1710 hours/year at work. And at top is Mexico with their 2257 hours/year work hours. These numbers is from OECD www.instarem.com/blog/are-you-working-more-than-you-should/

The Problem is that the statistic of this is tricky. For example the study doesn´t count holidays and vacations, but they make a huge gap between the Countrys. But in Japan for example the workers have something around 4 weeks of leave a year, but only use up to ten and furthermore they do unregistered Overtime. So they work more than it seems. What also make a big difference is the Amount of Partimers, if in Mexico only the man of the family work and his wife stay at home, but in for example Germany also the mothers work but in parttime, you will get a huge difference.

So what you are saying is that suplly and demand of labour is doing what its supposed to do?

mystery guest Yeah, I’m sure Peruvian indentured banana labourers LOVE supply and demand of labour

@@modernclassicalmusic8942 peruvians don't grow bananas , maybe Colombian banana workers or Ecuadorian, but not peruvians

Well, can't blame Ford for not developing what came 30 years later - from Japan - shifting work assignments to avoid these very problems and building IN the ability to stop production line by anybody. For a time, it was important development regardless of motivation.

Not to mention the labor movement fighting for the obvious and beneficial way forward.

Elon Musk : Managing a startup is a 80 hour a week job, a week has 168 hours, so I can do two startups at a time and still have 8 hours to sleep.

@@andrasbiro3007 There it is,someone wrongfully enjoying being succumbed to the system. The company doesn't give too much of a flip about you. You are enjoying that overtime schedule and they will throw you under the bus when you make mistakes and hire someone to replace you.It isn't about funds all the time, try to enjoy your time outside of work when you can.

@@mosywilliams8458 What are you even talking about?

@@andrasbiro3007 That 80 hour a week job that you mentioned is too long and too much.

@@mosywilliams8458 It's not too much if you enjoy it and it makes you one of the richest mans in the world and allows you to achieve all your dreams.

there are plenty of part-time jobs that do report your taxes for you. you're probably confusing part-time with 1099.

Or just be a contractual worker and be your "own business", so you get the benefit of tax breaks and you are able to pay your own medical fees and then be able to bill the company for those expenses. Full-time in my country means you get screwed 30-40% of your money and can't claim ANYTHING back as all the tax breaks are only for businesses and none for employees. In my country it's an absolute chore to move to another company as you need to move provident funds, medical aid, tax etc, where as if you rather paid all of this yourself you'd only need to start working at another company.

@@kazykamakaze131 In the US "be a contract worker" usually means you pay more taxes, get no benefits from the company you work for and generally still have to follow all the same bullshit rules from the employer. This isn't true for some high skilled, high demand contract work, but there's been a big push in the last few decades of employers pushing their workers to contract status to cut their costs.

@@jeffmacdonald9863 Stop making ignorant statements and please read into how taxes work. You think your new work vehicle can't be deducted from taxes or perhaps tools in trades? or perhaps policy insurance covers like medical? I honestly do believe many people haven't even ever looked into what can be deducted from taxes. If you are a contract worker you have the capability to negotiate your payment amount to calculate things in like insurance benefits etc. If not then you are only kicking yourself and being stupid at the same time as no one is forcing you to work for said companies and especially with the fact of how low the US unemployment rate is compared to many parts of the world it's an employee market and this is why you can get such high rates for contract work. I know you are going to try and use the argument of "what about the normal poor worker forced into contract work?" and I will reply to this is nearly EVERYONE in employment market starts out with relatively bad salary as a junior and then later on you get significantly more money and if this is not the case for many workers it's not the employers fault if an employee never put the time in to upskill( ffs many universities offer online degrees now so there is no excuse, never mind the easy path of trade work where you don't even need a degree) it's up to you as the employee to take responsibility for your future and to do research on what the market would find most valuable and put time into acquiring said skill, if this is not done then I am not going to feel bad for a person that after 10 years of working never even put time in to progress and they are stuck getting very little money and then either get pushed into sub par contract work. I came from a country where the young professional ages from 18-30 had an unemployment rate of 50%, yet you don't see me crying about it nor get little amount of money for my work. I put time into myself and worked and studied full time at university and upskilled myself even though I came from a poor family and never got assistance, yet I got ahead in life and now earn a significant amount of money. So you see why I don't have sympathy for the lazy that can't even get ahead in a market that is among the easiest to get ahead on the planet.

Depends on employment laws doesn't it. In developed countries, part-time emplyees with a permanent contract have their taxes taken at source, even those with zero hours contracts. If the person you work for dictates where and when you work, you are an employee and have taxes taken by the employer.

I think it emerges from that protestant-dominated "work ethic" cultural hegemony that has just basically fused with hyper-capitalist exploitation as a sort of religious dogma disguised as secular "efficiency" or "rationality".

Yup. Shouldn't be called "part time" if it's "full job".

Fulltime usually recieves benefits like Healthcare, which companies won't want to give.

the IRS Does in fact call 30 hours or better fulltime.

Oh no 3 seconds of Tallinn

Kind of the effect when you go for stock fotage

Well, it is only a short distance across the Baltic Sea from Helsinki.

@@Profus2001 But a very different country

yeahs this is a good refference

Don't forget he is probably a pretty good percentage of the reason WW2 happened

but there are jobs that need 24/7/365 coverage. Powergrid operators, powerplant operators.... doctors, police, military... cut the time, you need far more of qulified people who simply do not exist.

@Dominik Lehner Ford helped create vehicles used in the war, I guess?

Zytran L same with mercedez if im not mistaken

Paerigos there are a lot of qualified people and if there arent make some with universities. Problem is good schools cost 200 bags

40 hours? I usually run 50 hours.

I do quite love "pick your hour" style jobs that let you do overtime when needed, and cut back if you aren't feeling well. Me personally, I go for overtime whenever I think I can manage it because who doesn't like the feeling of exceeding expectations (and getting that hefty +50% pay bump)?

I do 60hrs. Last week i pulled 80 due to an ‘urgent" submission. I can only dream of 40 hours a week.

@@Tanget360 That does seem just the slightest bit unhealthy. Remember that the best investment is always your own health.

@Alexander Jenkins 25? I do zero

*hugs* at least you don't earn half of that for the same work hours. - a brother from Romania.

Thinking of you guys in Greece, love from Israel

@@futavadumnezo you have made me feel very rich indeed 🤷 thanks

Ouch, I didn't know it was that bad over there. I could make that in one week fixing people's bicycles. At the same time an apartment in my area is $1,200 a month so I guess we would be close to even.

Am shocked someone here mentioned expert rockwell,I taught only few knows of his good strategies which has been very helpful to me

You don't have to be shocked I trade with him too he has made name for himself indeed his good works are everywhere

Forex trading is made for people with strong mind who are ready to bear the risk to make it in life

I have lost money trying to invest on my own but pulled up when a buddy at work referred me to EXPERT ROCKWELL indeed I have recovered all my lost

In life we are meant to take risk worth taking because life itself is a risk

Lobbying is just plain bribery/corruption. It's should be made law that a vote is only worth x amount and that people can give their x amount to their chosen politician. No lobbying, no bribery. Can bet you money things would turn around real quick.

Thats why we have workplace shootings. They just haven’t found the owners yet.

And then in other end you'll have 40 hours a week to work freely. It sounds great, and is nice indeed, but also means you can't get paid for working overtime, which often happens in those jobs, you often have to be "on-duty" regardless of time of day (like contractor calling you 6:30, or client after 20:00) and there's still incentive to work regular hours, because of practical reasons. He kind of overgeneralises lot of things, especially to US perspective, which is weird since he's australian...?

@@jhutt8002 I would not go on salaried job, unless it paid 1.5x going rate. Being on wage (€ per hour instead of € per month) is so much more fair because i get paid for what i bother to do. For example on this day (31.8.2021) i took off at 15:30 (3:30pm) while my nominal hours would go up to 16:00. I can quit early because i have almost a day's worth of hours overtime in reserve. I don't see any point in loitering at my employer's yard (car repair shop and scrap/recycling) doing nothing.

Some people need to work more than 32 hours

Not gonna lie, I laughed.

STONKS UP

Yeah, it's a pretty obviously wrong and stupid thing to suggest in any society where unemployment exists that people "elect" to have specific types of jobs. The fact that there are fewer jobs than people who need jobs means there is zero negotiating power for the workers.

​@@dontmisunderstand6041 Well, I live in Austria and about 47% of woman choose to work part time while only 10% of man work part time. It is an active decision and several woman explained to me that they could not fathom to have a 40h work week and prefere to have more free time vs the money.

@@benjaminmeusburger4254 If you would, cite the study that shows this data, and explain in detail the efforts that study took to differentiate between people simply having a part time job, and those who had a choice between a full time job and a part time job but chose the part time job instead.

​@@dontmisunderstand6041 You will find the figures for Austrian part time employment here: news.wko.at/news/oesterreich/FS-Teilzeit-2019.pdf Most importent sentence: Knapp 70 % der Teilzeitbeschäftigten haben die Anzahl ihrer Arbeitsstunden selbst bestimmt. Teilzeit wird stark nachgefragt' Translation: 70% of part timer asked for reduced work hours. Part time is frequently requested (at the job interviews). 2nd source: karriere.sn.at/karriere-ratgeber/arbeitswelt/nach-wie-vor-gilt-teilzeit-ist-in-frauenhand-72206185 Most importent sentence: 'Immerhin sind drei Viertel der Damen mit ihrer Teilzeitarbeit zufrieden, ein Viertel der Befragten möchte dennoch gern mehr Stunden arbeiten.' translation: 3/4 of woman are happy with the part time and only 1/4 would like to work more.

@@benjaminmeusburger4254 I wonder if women in Austria would prefer it if men and women balanced both career and family more equally? Ideally at least? From my perspective at least, I am pretty sure many women would be glad to work a bit more if men would work a bit less. I don't think many women feel happy about giving up on the careers they have worked hard to achieve. I think choice between children and a career for women is a bit unfair as people choosing to start families are contributing to society: those children will be paying for the pensions of older populations someday (ideally). To make women pay for that "choice" as if it didn't benefit society is a bit convenient for those who benefit from this system. Women want their careers stalled...? Maybe some but not me and neither does any other woman I know. I am lucky to have a position that is full-time on paper but in reality part-time, same for my husband, and we manage our two kids together. The advantage to tech work I guess. All in all I think the current concept of full-time vs part-time work just doesn't make much sense in the level of productivity (e.g. 6 hours vs 8 hours) or the resulting brain drain (women leaving or reducing their role in the work force).

Sergio Montiel The “system” ain’t out to get you.

@@Showmetheevidence- No. The system is out to benefit itself. Exploiting us is only a means to an end.

The "system" is not a single human being. It is not sentient. It does not have an agenda.

@@slamdunk715 yes but it still matters how it was built and for what purpose. If the '' engine'' was built for exploiting that's what it's gonna do. Look at Finland and Denmark systems. It shows there can be balance.

In America, at least, you can blame our terrible city planning and zoning for creating these large car-based commutes.

@@ZodiacEntertainment2 This is a global issue, everywhere there are more cars on the street at peak hours than what the roads can handle, our 9-5 schedule is also very arbitrary and contributes to commuting times, whenever I worked at 12 to 20 Schedule my commuting times were barely 20min, on a regular schedule I take 1h, pretty substantial on the long run.

@@riktorGaming Hopefully the 'work from home' push can help with this.

I would not like that for my work, it would complicate overtime

8 months of empty offices, followed by people sleeping in the staircases for other 4 months is how I see that going down.

Of course it needs some additional regulations like maximal hours allowed per week, minimal time of per day, and depending on position no night /sunday work. And obviously no fixed 9-5. so there could even be days here you do not show up at all, or here you show up early.

@Tommy Trinder Yes I think it depends on the positions and other commitments a person has, and it needs additional rules. But it can even allow more freedom sometimes that could be spent with family and kids, especially if you can predict when the spikes probably are and when you have less work you can plan to do more i^with your family for example.

Especially for lower skilled office positions (and other other jobs also), this would likely result in rather terrible working conditions. Consider that if an employer doesn't care about their reputation on employee level, there is not much stopping them from overworking people for as long as annual work time limit allows, and then just dumping them for whatever BS reason (or for the actual reason that they are unfit to work anymore as their health is in rapid decline due to extreme working hours for unreasonably long period). This of course mostly for positions that see return for all input hours, and BS positions that somehow inherit work from other positions if they somehow complete their own work queue.

37.5 Germany

56 Albania

@@ihatehandles3 56 HOURS in Albania !?

60 in Turkey

@@teslaasmr9375 yes

The 4 day week with longer days does not get enough mention. Every study I've ever seen shows it benefits both sides of the equation employer and worker. That said understanding it only works in certain fields is important but it is one of the best models there are. As someone self employed with many friends similarly situated, fewer long days with more free days is by far more enjoyable.

I would like it a lot but it won’t work if society doesn’t follow. I can’t do this if the daycare opens and closes just in time for the typical hours workers to drop and pick up the children.

@@Danquebec01 what makes the 4 day really work is the fact everyone works a different schedule.

When I use to work for the local council, some 20 odd years ago, they had a great scheme called Flexitime. Basically you had your 40 hours per week BUT you could make up those hours how you pleased. You could do 5 8 hour days, or 4 10 hour days. There were time limits however, the earliest you could start was 7am and the latest you could finish was 6pm. Some weeks I'd decide to do the 4 10 hour week, if I was feeling a bit off I'd instead opt to go home early (having a short day) and make up the time over the next couple of days. My personal favorite was doing an extra hour each day (so 9 hours) because A) The boss had already gone home and B) it was mostly just free time and catching up on little things because the work was already done, then going home Friday lunchtime.

People on my team have experimented with it and often go back to 8 hour days because each ten hour day is too draining