>it's highly convenient that the standard US work-week happens to be the exact "...

		traverseda on Sept 18, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Cutting your salary by 40% >it's highly convenient that the standard US work-week happens to be the exact "correct" amount of hours to work to maximize productivity. I mean, why do you think people arrived at the 40hour/week metric? How do you think we came to standardize on it?

Union lobbying.