On: Working fewer hours would make us more productive

[DanBC]

> I agree that shorter hours are likely to be beneficial, but why are people trying to achieve this by passing a law?

We tried asking nicely; employers were abusive arseholes. This is why we can't have nice things.

Without law we see huge rich multinationals forcing people to stay at work but "clocking off" (and thus not getting paid) when things are quiet; or asking for very long hours without sensible overtime.

[briandear → DanBC]

Plenty of non rich small companies do the same thing. Perhaps worse because they don't have official HR policies that cover contingencies.