I work in auditing/accounting and my roommate works in IT and it seems employers would much rather pile on mandatory overtime rather than hire more people. I think the cause of this, among other things, is that the overtime premium of 1.5x is too low. If we fought to have the overtime premium raised to 2.0x we could drastically improve quality of life for most mid to low experience workers.
I work in auditing/accounting and my roommate works in IT and it seems employers would much rather pile on mandatory overtime rather than hire more people. I think the cause of this, among other things, is that the overtime premium of 1.5x is too low. If we fought to have the overtime premium raised to 2.0x we could drastically improve quality of life for most mid to low experience workers.