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Discover LudwigThe phrase "Reduce working hours" is correct and usable in written English
You might use it, for example, in a company memo proposing that employees should have their working hours reduced from 8 hours a day to 6 hours a day.
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We need to reduce working hours and distribute work more equitably, allowing all to benefit from the time saved by productivity gains.
The high incidence in Austria is likely related to Kurzarbeit (or "short work"), a temporary institutional arrangement which allows employers to reduce working hours and pays employees government-subsidised special allowances instead of regular wages to cover most of the earnings shortfall.
Personal incomes sagged as employers continued to cut wages and reduce working hours.
But Mrs Beckett's most controversial proposal to date has been to reduce working hours.
In response, Foxconn vowed to reduce working hours and significantly increase wages at its factories.
Ford saw the five-day week as just one step in ongoing efforts to reduce working hours.
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It may take many months before they accept the condition and decide to make positive steps to change their lives by giving up work, reducing working hours, and making significant lifestyle changes.
Other parents managed to return to work but experienced reduced working hours or re-oriented their career: "It really affected my professional career … I spent a lot of time designing and building our new house.
From an econometric perspective, one should note that a potential problem in this context stems from the fact that when receiving windfall gains individuals may decide to reduce their working effort either by reducing working hours or by dropping out of the labour force, which can generate a selection bias problem.
More cancer survivors had reduced working hours (aOR=1.42; 95% CI=4.60 28.35) and reduced work-related ability (aOR=6.11; 95% CI=3.64 10.27) than did the general population.
Although Blanc and his friends were a minority in the government, they had many supporters in the streets; and their colleagues made important concessions to their ideas by reducing working hours, proclaiming the right to work, appointing Blanc chairman of a permanent commission to investigate labour problems, and establishing national workshops to relieve the more acute unemployment.
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