Turn that road trip into a 40-hour workweek and you'll understand how some people view cubicle jobs.
Sarkozy's main tenets: revamp French overtime, make mortgage interest deductible, abolish the 35-hour workweek and decrease corporate taxes.
Start with that employee-friendly 35-hour workweek and the fact that European workers accrue vacation faster than their U.S. counterparts.
It sports the nicest corporate campus I've ever seen, with an Olympic-size swimming pool, child-care centers and a 35-hour workweek.
The skills gap exists not just in Silicon Valley, where jobs demand math SAT scores of 800 and an 80-hour workweek.
Although many people might not spend their 8-t0-5 in the office, the 40-hour workweek is still a myth for most knowledge workers.
Small business hourly employees worked an average of 105.1 hours in January, down slightly from the revised figure of 106.1 hours in December, making for a 24.3-hour workweek.
The point is, the workahol-a-beast can perhaps be tamed if we ask for help and adopt the uber-efficiency strategies that I hope to God are spelled out in The 4-Hour Workweek.
He pushed through upper-income tax cuts, deregulated incorporation laws, cut public sector pensions, raised the retirement age and killed taxes on overtime pay to incentivize longer hours, undermining the 35-hour workweek.
For those who work from home, the 40-hour workweek is going to be a highly salient reference, and accordingly they are likely to adopt this as a reasonable commitment to work.
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Another name being mentioned by aides as a potential prime minister is Martine Aubry, the Socialist party head and a former cabinet minister who presided over the introduction of the 35-hour workweek in the late 1990s.
Timothy Ferriss, the author of the New York Times bestseller The 4-Hour Workweek, would argue that the right combination of prioritization and delegation can effectively remove the need for 90% of what we do on the job.
So many things we take for granted came about because of the union movement -- minimum wage, 40-hour workweek, child labor laws -- you name it -- weekends -- a lot of these things came about because people were fighting for them.
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This eventually translated into a series of government programs, such as state-funded primary and secondary schooling, the adoption of a five-day, forty-hour workweek, elimination of child labor, introduction of welfare and unemployment services, senior income support, workplace safety regulations, environmental regulations, and eventually some form of universal healthcare.
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Beyond that, where is the squadron of 800-math-SAT fighter jocks who will strafe the enemy, and where is the 80-hour-workweek infantry who will press on regardless?
Besides the weak jobs growth itself, another worrisome detail was a decline of 0.1 hour in the average workweek, Nedoss said.
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The average workweek inched up 0.1 hour to 34.5 hours in February, with increases in the manufacturing workweek and factory overtime.
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Instead of the usual five-day workweek, employees work four ten-hour shifts per week, with no overtime.
To the extent that technology increases inequality much of it will be to reward innovators for finding ways to drive our workweek and retirement age down or to induce some to keep working 40-hour weeks.
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