The phrase "a decrease in working hours" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing changes in employment conditions, labor policies, or work-life balance.
Example: "The company announced a decrease in working hours to improve employee well-being and productivity."
Alternatives: "a reduction in working hours" or "a cut in working hours."
The unique nature of laparoscopic surgery combined with an increasing focus on patients' safety and rights, the present decrease in working hours, and concern over costs of operating theatre time are factors that challenge the traditional surgical approach and contribute to a growing need for novel methods in the training of laparoscopic surgeons.
Might this alleged decrease in working hours be the new urban legend?
After controlling for county fixed effects, year fixed effects, county-specific time trend, and four county-level demographic variables, I find 1.4 % decrease in labor force participation rate, 0.32 h decrease in working hours, 1.1%% increase in wages, and 0.49%% increase in SNAP enrollment in poorest counties of 6 expansion states.
It is important to study the consequences of the decrease in working hours for the services provided.
We could regain and maintain a reasonably healthy employment picture with little or no growth by essentially sharing jobs, a sharing effectuated by decreases in working hours in step with productivity advances.
The decrease in residents' working hours [11], as well as the smaller number of major gynecological procedures performed in general [12], leads to less exposure in the operating room and to a relatively smaller case volume for residents in training [13].
The miners demanded that the minimum age to be raised to 14 years for those who worked in the sulfur mines, the decrease of working hours and setting a minimum wage.
That caused a big decrease in jobs and working hours.
A shorter length of hospital stay, the decrease in work-hours of health care providers, and the increasing number of patient transitions between departments and institutions requires effective patient handovers, especially those of frail patients with comorbidities [ 1].
