People working in offices, factories or any other places have one day off per week and only need to work 8 hours per day. Gradually, the system of two days off and eight hours of work per week was implemented. This means only 40 hours of working time, 5 working days per week. You will be surprised to find that the system of forty hours of work and two days of rest began on this day, September 25, and it has a history of more than a hundred years. Let us know where this system originally started and who decided it?
An 8-hour day and a 40-hour work week are the standard working hours that employees should work today. This kind of work structure is quite modern today, but it started a century ago and has gradually become a widely used work policy. Anyway, when we were children and went to school, we had to stay for 8 hours. After studying 8 hours in school for 12 years, we have adapted. When we have to work in the future, there is no problem in working 8 hours.
Earlier one had to work 12 to 16 hours
During the Industrial Revolution, working just eight hours a day was unheard of. Because, factories always need care. Therefore, employees work approximately 10 to 16 hours a day. In the 1890s, workers in factory manufacturing units were required to work 100 hours a week. In this case, it would be a big deal if the factory management only worked a fixed eight hours a day and took two days off a week. Additionally, there are signs of dramatic change in the coming era.
The factory owner reduced working hours
It is said that in early 1914, with riots and unemployment rising, Ford Motor Company founder Henry Ford announced a plan to pay his male employees $5 for every eight hours they worked. Previously, the rate was $2.34 for a 9-hour day. Worker wages more than doubled to the surprise of other industrialists, but production increased and Ford employees developed a sense of pride in the company.
Henry Ford’s decision is very important for today’s modern work policies.
In the process, on September 25, 1926, Henry Ford, the founder of Ford Motor Company, made another important decision. Thereafter, he became one of the first major companies to change work policies to a 40-hour week. 5 working days, no change in salary.
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For this reason, there are two days off per week
In a 1926 interview with World Work magazine, Ford stated that leisure was necessary in a growing consumer market because working-class people needed enough free time to consume consumer goods, including automobiles. For workers, leisure is either “lost time” or a class privilege.
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Others say that Henry Ford did not do this to facilitate his employees or to protect their health. His concerns are more capital-centric. He realized that if the company wanted to make a profit, customers needed to make a purchase, and while buying, the customer needed time to relax and enjoy themselves. To do this, they need more vacation time.
Major events today
Celebrate World Pharmacist Day on September 25
Chaudhry Devi Lal, former Deputy Prime Minister of India, was born on September 25, 1914.
Deendayal Upadhyay was born on September 25, 1916.
September 25, 1340 – Britain and France signed the “Disarmament Treaty”.
September 25, 1524 – Vasco da Gama came to India for the last time as governor-general.
September 25, 1639 – The first “printing press” is born in the United States.
