The earliest entrepreneur to recognize the harm of overwork was Ford. He believed that if employees were merely laborers and not consumers, then products would have nowhere to be sold. The 40-hour workweek is commonplace today, but over 100 years ago, it was what American workers dreamed of. On January 5, 1914, Henry Ford announced a policy that was enough to make all American capitalists tremble:
The earliest entrepreneur to recognize the harm of overwork was Ford. He believed that if employees were merely laborers and not consumers, then products would have nowhere to be sold. The 40-hour workweek is commonplace today, but over 100 years ago, it was what American workers dreamed of. On January 5, 1914, Henry Ford announced a policy that was enough to make all American capitalists tremble: