We are all set to these 8-to-5 work hours, like it is the way things have always been or could ever be. It turns out this setup goes all the way back to the Industrial Revolution, when in London, because electricity was not invented, they scheduled work hours around daylight. The British set up that schedule, and here we are two centuries later, having electric lights and the tech to do our work whenever, yet still cleaving to it.

Where the sun rose at, maybe, 7 am and sets as early as 6 pm, workers really had no other choice but to live by daylight.

But somehow, companies still use those same 200-year-old standards in our contracts.

Why haven't we questioned this?

#inleo