Why so many Americans hate their work hours
, where does this mismatch of too few and too many hours come from? Blame companies"gaming the system" to save on employment costs, automation, and middle-class insecurity, two Yale professors told Insider. Workers are left either wanting to work more but can't get the hours, or they want to work less but feel they shouldn't. " about inequality harming rich and poor alike, said,"In that sense, humanly, the system is wasteful.
Employing workers for fewer than 40 hours a week means they can be classified as independent contractors instead of employees entitled to benefits, Jennifer Klein, a Yale labor historian, explained. Employers can then minimize their contributions to state unemployment-insurance funds and dodge workers' compensation for workplace injuries. Employers are"gaming the system," and workers are stuck cobbling together part-time jobs, she said.
Among middle-income workers earning roughly between $47,000 to $142,000, 26% said they want to work fewer hours, Pew reported. For higher-income workers making even more, 30% want to cut their hours. Economic elites swapped the aristocratic ideal of leisure for the middle-class value of hard work, creating an"economy of esteem, which compels some to work for more than is good for them," Markovits said. In their minds,"if they're not busy and not as in demand, they are not as elite," he added.
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