…ek and you shift to a ‘benign’ 60-hour work week, you need 25% more employees to get the same done. Ergo your costs go up, and your profits go down, revealin…ek and you shift to a ‘benign’ 60-hour work week, you need 25% more employees to get the same done. Ergo your costs go up, and your profits go down, revealing that you might have an unviable business that has relied on illegal working hours and Stockholm syndrome.