Some working adults who had the privilege of going to university might remember long nights in the library before an exam or essay deadline. Thankfully, this isn’t a convention in the corporate world, where the conventional working times are, of course, 9am to 5pm.
The eight-hour workday, and 40-hour workweek, was introduced by Henry Ford so that employees had more leisure time to spend their money. Since then, the 9-to-5 job has been a staple of life as we know it.