The Importance Of Six-Hour Work Days In The United States

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Well let's start off by stating that every person in this world is different, and act differently to different situations. With that being said when comes to this argument on six hour work days this should be considered. So when it states that in one part of the country it was very successful and the other part it was not that is because different types of people respond differently to things. As for what I believe should be done in the United States I think they should do some testing and research on it like the other countries did because us as Americans are very lazy people so it could very well work for us here in the United States. Me myself would prefer six hour work days because i have children and would rather be at home with them that

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