I can see this working for office jobs but I don't see how it would work on assembly lines, production facilities, construction, and 24 hour operations. On 24 hour operations you would have to introduce added shifts and the associated costs. Construction is a deadline based industry so again they either have to hire more people or deadlines would have to be lengthened. If you are producing a product on an assembly line again you need more shifts to gain the same productivity you would get based on an typical 40 hour week. A lot of these fields have likely introduced Kaizen processes to eliminate waste and streamline the process so I don't see how the average worker in these facilities would be able to make up the loss of 10 hours/week. Maybe it's me but I don't see this ever being able to fly in North America.
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