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Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher
Blaze Podcast Network
4.9 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 3 July 2024
⏱️ 41 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Blaze Radio Network. |
| 0:02.0 | And now, chewing the fat with Jeff Fisher. |
| 0:06.0 | Sure, the United States is thinking about cutting the work week down to a four day work week. |
| 0:13.9 | I mean according to a survey, the latest survey from KPMG, |
| 0:19.2 | and I love the surveys from KPMG, survey of CEOs. |
| 0:23.4 | They said, well, we're considering cutting the work week down, are you? |
| 0:27.4 | Okay. |
| 0:28.4 | But Greece has now given the 40 hour work week the boot and made it 48 hours. Nice. And the reason they said that, you know, we want business to provide round-the-clock services and we hope that this will make us rebound from a decade-long slum. |
| 0:55.0 | Oh, okay. |
| 0:57.0 | Well, I guess this is supposed to address a skilled worker shortage |
| 1:02.0 | and combat unpaid overtime and of course the labor unions |
| 1:06.5 | denounce it as barbaric but so Greece will now have 48 hour work weeks. |
| 1:13.2 | Okay. Now I mean they already work more than we do. |
| 1:17.7 | In Greece they average 1,486 working hours compared to 1,811 in the US and the EU. |
| 1:28.1 | I mean, they don't even hardly work at all. |
| 1:29.6 | They have like 1, 1971 hours in a work week. |
| 1:33.9 | But kind of making the work week four days, |
| 1:38.0 | I mean, you're still getting 40 hours in. |
| 1:39.7 | They still will expect you to work 40 hours. |
| 1:41.6 | It's not like they're cutting any work hours off, they're just cutting the days down. |
| 1:46.0 | And in today's world, when we're connected through a thing called, what's it called again, |
| 1:52.0 | oh yeah, the internet, pretty tough to shut work off. |
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