Tag: 40-Hour Work Week

Why We Have to Go Back to a 40-Hour Work Week to Keep Our Sanity

Apr 9, 2012

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by

mwkruse

in Business, Christian Life, Public Policy, Trends: Economic, Trends: Social, Vocation

AlterNet: Why We Have to Go Back to a 40-Hour Work Week to Keep Our Sanity One hundred fifty years of research proves that shorter work hours actually raise productivity and profits — and overtime destroys them. So why do we still do this? … What these studies showed, over and over, was that industrial…