Friday, 27 September 2013

If the whole world worked part time...

Some people work 40 hours a week, some work part time and others don't work, for whatever reason. There are currently millions of people throughout the world that are not working, and millions of other people who are working so many hours a week that their families barely recognise them. The fast food industry is thriving, because people are working so hard that they haven't time/ energy any more to cook healthy food from scratch. Hospitals are flooded with heart disease cases and the obese.

Gyms are thriving, people are spending more and more time pounding the treadmill, to get rid of the weight that they've gained in recent years. Stress is at an all time high. People are scampering around like hamsters, trying to keep up with daily life, and getting in increasing amounts of debt, either financial debt or sleep debt. Parents are spending less time with their children than ever before, because pressures of work are mounting. Sounds awful doesn't it? What if there were another way? A way where everyone get to enjoy hobbies and interests because they have the time to do so? Where no one is getting too stressed because of work?

Where all people work a maximum of say 25 hours a week. But how it works is that the budget for other departments is cut, giving people a top up so that they don't loose any money. This money can come from the health budget because if people have more time to pursue their hobbies see their families, have a lie in or a long lunch occasionally chances are they wouldn't need so much in the line of health care. It can come from the obesity clinics budget because people will be able to go and home cook meals, maybe even grow a few vegetables or two, thus keeping slimmer and fitter than ever before. More people would have jobs therefore you wouldn't have to pay so much out in unemployment benefit, this can go to the workers top up benefit.

People are forever paying out for parking, traveling costs, lunches, uniform or dry cleaning bills, if they could do this on even one less day a week, then they might even save some money. What do you think?

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