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The working week should be shorter and workers should have a longer weekend. Do you agree or disagre?

#week #workers #weekend #disagre
Nowadays people spend most of their
time
 at
work
 than ever before.
This
 raises a certain question about the standard working
hours
as well as
 adequate weekends.
While
 some still hold to the conservative view that people have to
work
 as much as possible to supply life expenditures, in
this
 essay, I intend to argue that working
hours
 are much more than humans’ capabilities. The reasons for
this
 are as follows. First of all, spending a third of a day – 8
hours
 at
work
 seems to be incompatible with the physical nature of the body. Of course, spending as much
time
 as possible at
work
 would bring economic growth and prosperity in the short term,
nonetheless
, the disadvantageous it causes to workers' health in later life are significantly irreparable. A salient example of
this
 is especially in developing countries where employees have to
work
 more than 8
hours
 a day with a mere one day off at the weekend. Sacrificing resting and leisure
time
 for
work
 would jeopardise their physical and mental health.
Secondly
 and even more importantly, though, working for long
hours
 with fewer weekends would result in dropping the efficiency at
work
.
According to
 research conducted in 2020, decreasing
work
time
 from 8 to 5
hours
 in a factory, resulted in a 30% increase in productivity, workers' innovation and problem-solving skills. In order to have a flourishing and healthy society, greater regulation of standard working
time
 would be justified. By way of conclusion, I once again reaffirm my position that spending
such
 long
hours
 at
work
 with inadequate weekends has turned out to have disastrous impacts on society at large.
However
, providing the opportunity for workers to have more free
time
 would be accompanied by exponential benefits for the nation.
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