For now he is putting in 100-hour workweeks and keeping constant company with his BlackBerry.
For 11 years Dulany logged seven-day workweeks and at least a dozen overseas trips a year.
The quieter workweeks, the extra hours of sunlight and the lush green lawns practically beg for literary pursuits.
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The storyline starts with the creation of an idea, supported by 80-hour workweeks and generous portions of luck, timing, and bad pizza.
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"I thought at this age I would be scaling back my 60-hour workweeks and beginning to develop some of my outside interests, " he says.
With her 60-hour workweeks, plus early-morning and late-night meetings and a 1.5-hour commute each way, she seldom had time with her two small children.
According to the International Labour Organization, Americans put in the longest workweeks of any other industrialized nation, and everybody knows moms always put themselves last.
Earlier this year it agreed to change its labor practices after an outside audit found widespread breaches of work rules, including 60-hour workweeks and regarding health and safety.
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Furthermore, Kramer believes that the dissatisfaction derived from the work-life trade-offs may also be eased by company-supported flexible work policies, including paid vacation, flexible work arrangements or telecommuting and compressed workweeks.
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He's a leader in helping Ford wring out waste and simplify work rules to boost productivity. (Many Ford plants, in fact, are adopting four-day workweeks, fewer job classifications and lower pay for janitors, just like GEMA.) But Sullivan objects to how few jobs at GEMA are left for UAW workers earning top-tier wages.
University of Texas sociologist Jennifer Glass, a senior fellow at the Council on Contemporary Families, points out that corporate and government professionals in the United States put in much longer workweeks than their counterparts in Europe, where limits on work hours are common, workplace flexibility is more widespread, and workers are entitled to far more vacation days per year than most Americans -- and actually use them.
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