Effects of working less hours.

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Sometimes people need a break they just can't continue to handle the long hours of the work day the reason could be just them being tired, or maybe they have more important matters like a family,or even maybe health problems whatever the reason working fewer hours has many benefits. Although just like every other things to gain something you must also lose something in return. In this case you gain more time with friends,family, and studies, but you lose pay and may even irritate your boss. Less pay is obvious as you are working fewer hours so you get less money, which means your standard of living goes down. More time for leisure activities such as, friends and family gives you a closer bond with your friends and family. Working fewer hours could also irritate your boss, since you are making him either hire a new worker or making another worker pick up the slack, either way it will affect your boss one way or the other. Finnaly, you will also have more time to devote yourself to studies whither you're in college or have a hobby that you like to study up on, you now have more time to devote yourself to these things, but are they really worth it? Let's check each one more closely and the theoretical chain that may lead from these events.

As we already know unless you get a raise working fewer hours directly means less pay, and of course it means you can buy less things. Well when you make a certain amount of pay you make a standard of living for yourself, as you lose or gain income your standard of living fluctuates however, after your pay goes from being higher to lower your standard of living doesn't drop back down to what it was if you had made money before. For example, let's say you made 200$ a week, then you got a raise to 3...

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...ut. First we have that if you receive less income, you will eventually want more. Second we now have the time to spend with friends and family which will result in feeling more secure as you will have closer friends to help you out in a time of need.. Thirdly we have the Employer irritated means harder work, which means needing more rest. Lastly we reached the conclusion that more time to study means less overall stress. So when we review these it's kinda difficult on deciding wither or not working fewer hours is beneficial or not, but of course that's something you have to decide based on your own living situation. Are you wanting to get closer to friends?, Do you really care about wanting more money? What about having to work harder? Maybe you need less stress by working less and studying? Well that's what you will have to decide based on your own living situation.

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