Told that workers want shorter hours, he suggests shortening their lunch hours to 20 minutes.
They now work much shorter hours than the Koreans and, with much longer vacations, take far more foreign trips.
Matt Yglesias tells us that there would, or at least could, be environmental benefits if everyone worked shorter hours.
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Germans have shorter hours of work than Britain or the US (or Greece).
Anecdotal evidence suggests that shorter hours at the office are paid for in fewer coffee breaks and smarter work habits.
Many baby-boomers say they never want to bow out altogether, though they would often prefer to put in shorter hours.
If an employee agrees to shorter hours (Kurzarbeit), the government subsidises his wages to offset 60% of the loss of income.
During the festival, participating beer halls keep shorter hours than in Oktoberfest to account for the potency of the beer served in the one-liter ceramic steins.
But much of the decline appears to be structural, caused by new rules like the European working-time directive and a greater preference for shorter hours, including part-time jobs.
Unemployment has been kept artificially low, with 1.4 million workers put on "Kurzarbeit" - where they work shorter hours while the government makes up some of the lost salary.
The number of full-time employees getting government wage subsidies to compensate for working shorter hours has now surged to more than a quarter of a million, from just 16, 000 a year ago.
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In December 2008, with the world's economy sagging, she summoned senior German businessmen to discuss a set of stimulus measures, including subsidies for retaining staff on shorter hours rather than laying them off.
On jobs, for instance, this latest analysis includes an insight into the extent of under-employment in Scotland - those working shorter hours than they want, or under-using their skills, as with graduates making coffee.
Although they have suffered their share of slings and arrows from recent budget cuts and shorter hours, the American Library Association reports that in the decade ending in 2009, there was actually a net public library increase.
In a statement released on Monday, the White House said that "many of the 398 national parks across the country would be partially or fully closed" and other parks would experience shorter hours, fewer employees and limited camping and hiking spaces.
He finds that the redistribution of both income and employment (through shorter working hours) is essential to the project.
But in all those other things like shorter working hours (and thus more leisure), safer workplaces, unemployment protections and the rest.
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Shorter working hours and fewer tasks were among the key working aspects reported to be beneficial to the employee's mental health.
Productivity is the crux of arguments in favour of shorter working hours.
Among other things, Lord Skidelsky thinks shorter working hours, higher taxes on consumption and less advertising might provide a way to do it.
As a woman I understand why other women who carry the burden of the family want to be home and have shorter working hours.
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Personally, I will bemoan the beach and park closings, the shorter library hours, the cuts in water, air, and soil conservation, and mass transit funding.
Since 1990 its childcare support program has been in continual evolution, providing employees with extensive leaves of parental absence, shorter working hours, childcare subsidies and on-site nursery facilities.
Everyone likes good social benefits and shorter working hours.
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Originally created by Tarell Alvin McCraney for London's Royal Shakespeare Company, it's a multiracial modern-dress version that runs for 90 intermission-free minutes, nearly three hours shorter than an uncut production.
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On his frequent business trips he buys a coach ticket if the flight is shorter than six hours (it no doubt helps that he usually gets upgraded), and he travels on weekends.
This theory seemed to agree with observations taken over the last three decades, which reveal that binary systems are abundant, but none of the pairs have an orbital period shorter than five hours, the researchers said.
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Sure, Hong Kong to Adelaide clocks 13 hours of flying time, but it's a lot shorter than the 27 hours from New York.
Given that he was on stage for a total of two hours, a shorter more polished performance would have made for a better show.
It would be similarly hard to tinker with automatic rises in the minimum wage, even though that would make sense when, from the start of 2002, France's small businesses will have to observe the shorter working week of 35 hours.
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