A Full Time Job is 12.5 Hours/Week (Script & Sources)
Added 2021-02-19 04:32:10 +0000 UTCWorking full time means working 40 hours a week - except on average Americans work 47 hours a week, and actually if you’re full time salaried, you might be working as much as much as 60 or more hours a week for the same amount of money. And that’s outrageous, because the actual amount of time you should be working for your full time pay is 12.5 hours a week. Listen.
If you work full time, then you already know that nobody actually works 40 hours a week. But maybe I should say nobody is productive 40 hours a week - and if you’re not working that whole time, why does your job own you for a third of your entire day 5 days a week?
And that feels ridiculous because working 40 hours a week is a totally arbitrary number that only exists because of Henry Ford, the fourth richest guy [DISPUTED] in American history, who by the way hated Jews and was the only American mentioned and praised by Hitler in Mein Kampf. Ford established the 40 hour work week - with the idea that his employees would work 8 hours, sleep 8 hours, and no joke, shop 8 hours.
Literally the only reason he gave was that people couldn’t work the whole day or they wouldn’t have time to buy and use consumer products, like the cars he was manufacturing.
So, anyway, for some reason we took this douchebag at his word, and have spent the last century working 9-5, while literally every experiment and study shows that it doesn’t make sense and is a really bad idea. In 1974, the UK temporarily cut the work week by 40%, and productivity only dropped 6%. In the 2000s in France, the workweek was limited to 35 hours, with an increase in productivity, and in 2015 in Sweden, nursing homes cut their hours from 8 to 6 a day, and saw a 10% drop in sick leave and a huge increase in work quality.
The fact is, research shows that on average, the amount of time workers spend actually doing productive work, is 2.5 hours A DAY, or 12.5 hours a week. And, if you watched my other video about why the $15 minimum wage is a joke, overall worker productivity is at its highest level ever.
So instead of chaining workers to their desks or computer for 8 hours a day, most jobs would be able to switch to a 12.5 hour workweek with no loss of productivity, and employees could actually live their lives how they want to, and not how some weirdo billionaire antisemite capitalist said we should 107 years ago.
