One of the first businesses to implement this was the Ford Motor Company, in 1914, which not only cut the standard workday to eight hours, but also doubled their worker's pay in the process.
Henry Ford standardized the practice about 100 years ago when he required employees at his Ford Motor Company factories to work 40-hour weeks or eight hours a day for five days.
Some people credit Henry Ford with standardizing US traffic on the right side of the road because, in 1908, Ford Motor Co. put the steering wheel on the left side of the hugely popular Model T.
The project grew out of the car company Ford's efforts to develop businesses that could use self-driving delivery vehicles. Ford has already been working with the delivery company Postmates to develop the service.
The Ford name gets out there and he milks it for everything that it's worth, and it was a very crucial part of Ford getting investors for the Ford Motor Company.
They've reached a tentative agreement with the Ford Motor company after negotiating an 11% raise right now with 25% increases over the next five years.