Artificially inflated hours doesn't make a job harder. It just makes it easier to justify a Union being paid for less work. Teaching online is harder? Prior to Covid, teachers had to drive to school, write down things on the board, hand out tests, use Power Point presentations, and take the class on the occasional field trip. That takes more effort than walking to a computer, turning it on, talking to a bunch of faces on the screen, pressing a button or two, and then closing out once the school day over. As for the teachers who got their pay cut, that's the Teachers Unions playing favorites because, like all Trade Unions, the Union Bosses are corrupt and nepotistic.