A blanket 'work less hours' policy across professions might actually be bad because doctors, scientists, researchers, etc work longer hours to advance medical knowledge which benefits everyone.
This is pure speculation but I don't believe anyone who is at the frontier of human knowledge will ever expand it by working less hours than usual.
But what if instead of working more, they spend time educating others and their peers in the free time and brought more into the field - then they all work less... thought capitalism make take a bit of a whack out of that concept.
This is pure speculation but I don't believe anyone who is at the frontier of human knowledge will ever expand it by working less hours than usual.