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- All workers must be paid a living wage for their labor.
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There's a strong argument that people also can't be productive for 5x8h days. Cases of the Mondays, Friday afternoons, just staring at the wall. I think a fundamental aspect of the standard workweek is a lot of employees are sometimes just at work without actually being productive. That's why some studies find no reduction in productivity when people go 4x8.