How many MFing studies do we need, that all point to stress causing numerous diseases and chronic health and body conditions, before America gets grabbed by the nutsack by an angry populace and forced to reduce fucking work stress?
5 day work weeks were the norm GENERATIONS AGO when families could make it with ONE PARENT WORKING, and the other could do house chores and family caretaking. But caretaking I mean kids AND elderly adults or anyone else that needs care and (newsflash) can't afford to pay a service to do it.
That's been long gone since at least the 80's, with single parents on the rise and expenses only going up. It's way past fuckin time to mandate 4 day work week and have actual PTO for vacation and health including mental health/stress reasons.
Now, most people who are single or single parents already do double the amount of work including household chores/errands/caretaking/etc instead of having someone to split it with, and most people I know in my age group all work either 2 jobs, or insane hours at one just to BARELY GET BY.
Covid shut down the world, and yet it changed NOTHING in America's toxic ass work culture.
What's it going to take? Seriously.