How To Write A Response To Us Working Less By Richard Schiffman

In response to Americans working less, writer Richard Schiffman argues that the importance of spending time with your family and friends, working less, and taking care of your personal needs, need to come before working all day and then bringing home more work to stress yourself over. Schiffman builds his argument by using anecdotes and a pathological stand point. Schiffman started his article by telling a friend's issue that they addressed him with - her work was “killing’ her and that she was thinking of leaving her job to take care of herself. As well as sharing another friend's concern that her job “...routinely forced to work late and at home on weekends—often without pay—on the projects she didn't have time to finish at the office. With

Schiffman brought us how the 40-hour-work-week act was put into place so that when employees would work over their 40 hour work week they weren’t working for free they could still provide an income for their families working more. Schiffman also explained in his argument how in the Civil War times to the end of the Great Depression they were in support of the shorter hour work weeks but the country wasn't financially independent enough to be able to provide workers with that privilege. Following the argument of Civil War to The Depression times Schiffman stated “... enactment, in 1938, of the Fair Labor Standard Act's 40-hour-week…” stating how the act was made to help ensure that people that worked more than the hired or discussed time got credit for those hours under

Shiffman explained “ A wide scale reduction in work hours would spread out the national workload and help to make more jobs available for the unemployed.” Schiffman also goes on to explain how a study was done on pilot program on how they would rather work less hours and get payed less and work less hours. “...a pilot program in Utah found 82 percent of state workers surveyed said that they liked the change and wanted to stick with it.” Schiffman wanted to show that there had been experiments and studies on this topic and proven that it was effective as well as the people enjoyed it