Hey Walker,

Finally read your piece.  If it is true that, in some given
instances, a shorter work-week can increase output per week,
which is plausible enough, how do you address the issue of a new
regime where one dude has to work four days and another five for
the same pay?

Another question, why don't individual employers figure out they
should reduce their hours (and pay, presumably) to make more
money?  The incentive to use overtime rather than additional
workers is obvious enough, given fixed costs of employment, and
it's also obvious why more people providing the same lump of
hours could produce more output, but how much does your case rest
simply on working the same group of workers fewer hours and
producing more?

One big lump o' labor



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