For most, that means foregoing the work-week commute and stocking up on water and candles.
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For example, are they deskbound for most of their work-week or are they mobile?
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For many Americans, who now work an average 47 hour work-week, the prospect of taking vacation days can be daunting.
For 10 titles, a nearly 100-hour work-week and a six-figure annual rate, moms may be the most valuable workers in the country.
Big manufacturers, such as Renault and Peugeot, have even grown to love the 35-hour work-week, for the greater flexibility they have derived from it.
Add to this mix the change in the world of work, where, instead of a 40 hour work week in the USA and a more rational 32-35 hour work week in the much of the EU, the dot.com techies are working 60-80 hours a week, with little or no time scheduled for physical recreation or broader social, cultural, or political activities or involvement.
Almost all of our week-to-week work on MOTD, MOTD2 (which didn't exist in 2000) Focus and Score is based around our Premiership contract.
Though full-time firefighters work a 42-hour week, much of it at night and at weekends, their four-days-on, four-days-off rota allows them, with permission, to supplement their salaries with a second job.
It takes 60, 000 farm hands to work the four-week harvest in late summer.
In September, the striking miners, who were mostly rock-drill operators, agreed to return to work after a six-week stoppage, accepting a pay rise of up to 22%.
During the campaign, Sarkozy criticized the 35-hour work week and other labor restrictions that contribute to steady unemployment of around 9% -- one of the highest rates in Europe.
However, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports on a category of workers who will almost surely be involuntarily underemployed as a result of health reform: the 10 million part-timers who now work 30-34 hours per week.
He has implored the country that invented the 35-hour week to work more and expect fewer hand-outs from the state.
Instead of the usual five-day workweek, employees work four ten-hour shifts per week, with no overtime.
My wife is on maternity leave, but due to go back to work part-time next week.
Did you know that we have Henry Ford to thank for the 40-hour work week?
In 1973, a three-day work week was introduced in Britain to conserve energy during a miners' strike.
The change means they would still work a 40-hour week, but critics say it would be disruptive.
Justice Secretary Ken Clarke told last year's Conservative Party conference that prisoners in England and Wales should work a 40-hour week.
It codified the 60-hour work week and stipulated that all factories, mines and mills had to shut down by 2 p.m.
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He wants to free up labor markets, calls France's 35-hour work week absurd and plans tougher measures on crime and immigration.
The 100-hour work week and getting five hours of sleep per night have become a sort of Silicon Valley Badge of Honor.
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It helped lay the cornerstones of middle class security, from the 40-hour work week and the minimum wage to family leave and pensions.
The last writers' strike, in 1988, resulted in a 22-week work interruption that not only delayed the TV season but crippled the industry.
The last writers' strike in 1988 resulted in a 22-week work stoppage that not only delayed the TV season, but also crippled the industry.
Mr Jospin has signalled he does not agree with Ms Royal's questioning of the 35-hour work week and her tough proposals on law and order.
The Department of Labor is proud of its many important achievements, from providing the framework for the 40-hour work week to allowing parents to take leave for family emergencies.
The Columbus Blue Jackets, like the NHL office, have plans in place to reduce staff hours to a four-day work week by November 1, unless the lockout ends before then.
In January, Apple released a report saying that last year only 38% of its suppliers met its standard for a maximum 60-hour work week and at least one day off every seven.
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