A Six-Hour Workday Should Not Become Standard In The United States?

A six hour workday should not become standard in the United States. There are a few reasons for this, which will be discussed in this essay. The author of the first paragraph brings the factories of Henry Ford as an example. The author wants to say that the increase of productivity in Ford's workers after a cut in work hours is a proof that shortening the workday is helpful. But if you take into account the differences in these instances, we can see the discrepancy. The two cases are wildly different, because today we work for a mere 8 hours, whereas Ford's workers worked half the day. Having their day shortened so dramatically must have had a massive impact on worker's morale, improving their productivity. The same cannot be said for modern workers. Such a change in working hours would not impact the mindset of workers as drastically, and would probably not affect their work ethic in any valuable way. …show more content…
Since humans don't always operate at peak efficiency, the article tries to make the claim that it would be more productive to work shorter hours when people are, in fact, more efficient. This is not inherently incorrect, but is not a case for shortening the workday. Just because a person is most efficient during a certain timeframe doesn't mean that they are completely useless outside of said timeframe. If workers work best in the later hours of the day, why not simply start the day later but still work the same eight hours? In addiction, bringing an example of school grades improving does not really prove this case. In school people are learning, and have a mindset to absorb knowlege. At work, they are applying the skills they have already learned, and generally are not becoming profficient in new subjects. While a schedule change may be in order, cutting two hours of the workday is