40 Hours A Week? What’s That??

An old school Alabama song speaks to working “40 hour week for a living just to send it on down the line”. These days a 40 hour work week would be a dream come true for many workers, as technology makes it easy to blur the lines between work and life. With texts, tweets, email and face book you are never really off the clock. In fact the 40 hour week is such a novel idea that some companies are using a 40 hour work week promise to attract employees.

United Shore Financial Services LLC, for example, tells employees, "You give us 40 hours and everything else is yours."

Leaders say the "firm 40" makes employees more efficient by forcing them to focus on work while they are in the office, and unplug fully when they leave. An economics instructor at Stanford University says, "Workers need time to recover from work."

Others agree with Pennsylvania-based myHR Partner Inc. saying some employees are even willing to take a pay cut for a 40-hour week. Three open positions at the company have received 663 applicants, and the company president says that some hires have taken pay cuts from six-figure jobs to come work for them where compensation ranges from $40,000 to $90,000 a year.

They say time is money…and others say there not enough money if it takes my time! (Yahoo)