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According to ADP, the DoL, and the FLSA you're wrong.

Can you require exempt employees to work certain hours? 1

Employers are free to create work schedules for exempt employees however they see fit as long as they comply with any state and local regulations that govern meals and breaks.

Does an exempt employee have to work 40 hours a week? 1

No, however, many businesses have company policies mandating a 40-hour workweek for exempt employees. Employers may take disciplinary action, including termination, against anyone who doesn’t fulfill that requirement, but they usually can’t deduct pay. Doing so might result in the employee no longer qualifying for the exemption.

Further you keep making comments about "fill the key responsibilities of your job description" like most workers have extremely specific job duties. This is not the case for salaried-exempt workers: 2

• primary duty must be managing the enterprise...department...or subdivision of the enterprise; OR
• primary duty includes the exercise of discretion and independent judgment with respect to matters of significance; OR
• primary duty must be the performance of work requiring advanced knowledge, defined as work which is predominantly intellectual in character and which includes work requiring the consistent exercise of discretion and judgment; AND The advanced knowledge must be in a field of science or learning; AND The advanced knowledge must be customarily acquired by a prolonged course of specialized intellectual instruction.

It’s high time people pushed back on this bullshit. Most people in office jobs can do their jobs effectively in well under 40 hours.

This is a terrible hill to die on. By that logic, most office jobs can be outsourced to India for a third of the cost if all you do is check off a list. If Employers have to deal with people double-dipping, they'll pay a fraction of your salary for it.

A good manager understands that the true resource is employee morale, trust, and loyalty

It's a two way street. Employees hiding the fact that they are working a second job during the time they are suppose to be working for you is a breach of trust as well.

study after study after study shows nothing but positives both for employers and employees in more efficient and balanced work time structures than the current mass delusion standard.

Wait a minute, now you're trying to double-dip arguments! You can't sit there are argue that the 40 hour work week is bad and inefficient and then claim that a person should be able to work two jobs simultaneously like it wouldn't be even more inefficient or worse for work / life balance. It's absurd that you'd even say that. Your comments more and more are incoherent ramblings of someone who hasn't thought anything through and just wants to complain about work.