The Office is Dying: Its Time to Rethink How We Work

[Mme. Defarge]

14. The problem is that

so many major employers are invested in this approach, which gives them way too much leverage. It seems like it may be an anti-trust situation. At any rate, there needs to be a major update to our outmoded wage and hour laws which provide protections to workers who are paid for their time, whereas exempt employees (meaning exempt from the protection of the Fair Labor Standards Act) are paid to do a job, in accordance with a job description and company standards.