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1 year agoThat’s a really great idea. It makes so much sense that it seems weird that it’s not already the way things are done.
That’s a really great idea. It makes so much sense that it seems weird that it’s not already the way things are done.
This is the opposite of where the 8 hour day/40 hour week came from. In the US, it was fought for and won by various pro labor groups and unions in the early 1900s and became part of US law under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938.