The actual arrangements varied and might include fewer hours per day, fewer days per week, or fewer months per year.

Not only does a higher percentage of American adults work, but they also work more hours per week and more weeks per year. In 2004, the French worked 28 fewer hours per person than Americans, and the Germans and Dutch each put in 25 fewer hours, and the money they earned was correspondingly lower almost 30 less income per person than Americans received.

For many older workers, the choice is not whether to work, but how much. We now have less than full employment in the sense that the payroll tax encourages older workers to work fewer hours than they otherwise would.

Do three hours' work.

I work long hours.

Do another three hours' work.

I work 10 hours a day I commute two hours a day.

Every single year fewer electricians, fewer carpenters, fewer plumbers, fewer welders, fewer pipefitters, fewer steamfitters.

Income levels are higher on average in the US, but mainly because the Nordic countries work fewer hours per week. In any case, all of the Nordic countries have very high incomes, and Norway s per capita income actually exceeds the US.

While American women work 36 hours per week on average, Dutch women put in only 24 hours per week, while German women work 30 hours. French women with a job work on average 34 hours per week, but the percentage of women who work outside the home in France is almost 20 lower than in the US.

They're required to work eight hours every day.

I work for three hours every Sunday morning.

Manufacturing productivity per hour in Europe compares quite well with the US, but Europeans work significantly fewer hours per year, which explains the annual per capita difference. But European countries lag badly in services, where restrictive practices, protectionism, and inefficiency hold them back.

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It will take him two hours to finish the work.

The breaks got fewer and fewer.

They work for longer hours with less income, less social welfare.

I'm like, That's stupid because you have to work for five hours.

We could perhaps all be happy working fewer hours if the decline reflected gradual social progress. But we are not happy with unemployment that results from a sudden fiscal crisis.

But experience shows that the decision to retire or to work fewer hours is influenced by the compensation that members of this group receive. And this amount partly reflects the fact that employed people who collect Social Security and Medicare are subject to the payroll tax that finances them.

Fewer and more focused reports and resolutions and rationalization of the agenda could enrich the quality of work.

First, for some individuals, working fewer hours reduces incomes enough to entitle them to a larger government subsidy for health insurance. Second, some employers are being incented to reduce the number of working hours for individual employees, because, above a specified number, Obamacare imposes a larger burden on them.

Convention concerning the Reduction of Hours of Work to Forty a Week (No. 47)

Bavaria s government increased the workweek from 38.5 to 40 hours for older employees and to 42 hours for younger employees. When Daimler Chrysler increased work hours from 35 to 40 hours in its research and development center, the dam broke and other bargaining agreements fell into line.

So, we have fewer conflicts today in which fewer people get killed.

Fathers in cities spend eight hours in the office and another two hours traveling to and from their work on trains full of people every morning and evening.

If instead you reward doctors for doing fewer procedures, they will do fewer.

One explanation for this gap is shorter working hours (or lower availability for work) for women (In 2002, employed men worked an average of 42 hours a week, compared to employed women, who worked 31 hours a week a 35 difference).

Google employees work here, keeping the data center up and running twenty four hours a day.

A woman on average spent 13.6 hours per week in 2002 on domestic and unpaid work.

The needs of parents who work long hours on some days are also taken into consideration.

Less time and fewer resources were allocated to other activities included in the work plan, such as research, standard setting or training.

The variance of 8,084,300 under this heading is attributable primarily to utilization of fewer flight hours than budgeted by the Operation's helicopter fleet (3,053 hours compared to 8,060 budgeted) owing to the non deployment of the military aviation unit comprising eight helicopters, which also contributed to reduced consumption of aviation fuel during the reporting period.

Around the world, an estimated 171 million children from 5 to 17 years of age work, subject to hazardous conditions, excessive workloads, work intensity and excessive hours of work.

In Alberta people work nonstop, 24 hours by seven to extract as much oil as they can.

And this is because in small groups there are fewer ideas, there are fewer innovations.

As we have more and more old people, like me, and fewer and fewer babies.

With fewer staff available, overtime usage has increased however, longer working hours have taken a toll on the morale, health and motivation of the staff, and there has been an increase in sick and emergency leave taken.

An estimated 6 of all employees are working fewer hours per week than they would like, and about 2 of potential employees are not counted as unemployed because they have not looked for work in the past few weeks, even though they would like to work. Adding these individuals to those officially classified as unemployed implies that about 15 of potential labor force participants are working less than they want.

We wanted to get away from this silly trip, up and down on a submarine average depth of the ocean, 12,000 feet two and half hours to get to work in the morning two and half hours to get to home. Five hour commute to work.

And so I go in there until the early hours of the morning, and I work on new songs.

These six Sections will be able to produce 4,500 hours of trial work over 900 trial days per year.

Because of those concerns, Canada has become increasingly involved in text negotiations in order to work towards fewer, more focused and more balanced draft resolutions.

She waited for hours and hours.

The immediately have fewer children.