Mr. Ford established a five-day workweek, and every Friday the models were paid their fees, less Ford's 10percentt cut, whether the clients had paid the agency or not.
In fact, tech journalists could write "ambitious startup fails again!" stories pretty much every hour of the workweek and not run out of companies and founders to write about.
Maybe we need a companion phrase to describe the overly-generous vacation schedule our lawmakers allow themselves each and every year: the "congressional workweek".
He thought of a recent report that the average middle-income married couple with children now puts in a combined eight more workweeks every year than in 1979, and another finding that parents spend 22 fewer hours with their children every week than they did in 1969.
InternetVista pinged Amazon.com, Apple.com, Barnesandnoble.com, Dell.com, Target.com, ToysRus.com and Walmart.com every minute for the entire workweek from multiple datacenters located around the world, in order to find how well the websites were handling the influx of visitors looking for great bargains.
This is why virtually every source shows workweeks shortening dramatically throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries*.
He said that 35 years ago he promised his wife he would work a normal workweek in five years "and then every five years I would say only five more years".
Decree that everyone shall respond to every (internal) message within 24 hours during the workweek and that no email shall have more than three recipients, and watch the number of email drop and productivity rise.
Both doctors met at the end of a long workweek after Dr. Foreman had been up every night dealing with his son's cold.
He hands out M&Ms to employees every Wednesday-and, get this!, he's decreed a 35-hour workweek!
