13 Since then, however, a Canadian study across 383 employed individuals has been reported; productivity loss was measured in dimensions of RA-related absences, reduced performance, decreased working hours, job change, and work disability, and included in a model of the overall cost of production loss.
Recently, the greatest impact on costs for patients with RA was shown to be reduced performance while working (at-work productivity loss), followed by wage loss from quitting or changing jobs, decreased working hours, and missed work days (sick leave) [ 4].
In the first year of ALL treatment, 46% of parents lost a job, 13% divorced/separated, 22% decided not to have more children, 51% declined occupational opportunities, 68% decreased work hours, and 27% of families relocated homes.
14 Interestingly, presenteeism was found to account for 41% of total costs, whereas decreased work hours and absenteeism accounted for only 12%and10%0%, respectively.
Even though health worker migration to high-income countries is occurring, countries such as Australia continue to face persistent shortages, particularly in rural and outer-metropolitan areas [ 6]; a situation compounded by trends towards health workers' decreased work-hours, increased demand due to an ageing population [ 7] and an ageing health workforce [ 8].
In turn, they also found significant positive relationships between job satisfaction and intentions to leave direct patient care as well as the intention to decrease work hours.
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.
For instance, more resilient elephants may be selected more frequently to work more hours, or those elephants that sustain too many lesions may have decreased numbers of working hours, or be removed from the camp.
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.
Might this alleged decrease in working hours be the new urban legend?
4 Interestingly, the authors did not conclude their article by suggesting a decrease in working hours.
