Among many, many other reasons, one of the aspects I loved about college (the later years, anyway) was that I could set my own schedule to correspond with my interests and my body’s natural alarm clock. If I didn’t want to go to class until noon, I wouldn’t sign up for any morning classes. If I didn’t want to go to school on Fridays, I didn’t go to school on Fridays.
This is how the office-dwellers in Lichtenstein would model our work schedules. I knew that to graduate from college, I had to take certain classes, but worked them in as was convenient for me and my schedule. Similarly, our workers know they have to work a certain number of hours a week, but will be permitted to do so when it works for them. But the flexibility will be there for those who would like to take advantage, as long as it’s not abused.
Most people would still probably go the 9-5 route, but that’s because the school systems would be on a similar schedule. Classes will not be starting at 7:15 a.m. or whatever ungodly hour they are starting classes these days. Whoever thought it was a good idea to have kids awake, fed, dressed, and transported to class anytime near 7 a.m. is ridiculous, especially since parents generally head to work nearly two hours later, and then have to worry about picking their kids up and/or having someone watch their kids for two-plus hours before they get off work.
Come on people. It just makes sense.
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