> About 95 percent of the respondents said they want to work a shorter week—which to me means employees think they can complete their tasks in four days rather than five.<p>The poll didn’t ask if respondents thought they could finish their tasks in four days rather than five. It only asked if they were interested in a four-day workweek.<p>The exact question is in the linked poll:<p>> Would you like to work a four-day workweek?<p>There were fewer than 600 responses and most of them said yes.<p>Obviously people are going to respond “Yes” if you ask them if they want to work fewer days.
What's going to happen if the law allowed up to 20hr work weeks? Employers would pay twice less at first, but they would have to hire twice more staff, thus creating more competition for labor and driving wages up.