The air exchange rates during the experiments were either high (working hours) or low (non-working hours) and ranged from 1.6 to>12 h−1, with intermediate exchange rates.
It is debatable, however, whether any conclusions can be drawn from the impact of reducing extremely high working hours (90 110 h/week) to very high working hours (78 80 h/week).
Descriptive statistics of the study population are listed in table 1, and confirm that higher and lower professionals are characterised by fewer sick days, higher age and a higher number of working hours than skilled and unskilled workers.
Many trainees associate working in rural areas with a higher number of working hours (" seven days a week, 24 hours a day") due to a higher number of patients being seen than in urban practices and believe there is less money to be earned due to a lower number of privately insured patients.
A contract for a higher number of working hours a week was associated with being less influenced by others (Social norm), higher Self-efficacy, a less professional Intention and a more stringent, guideline-based, disorder-oriented approach (Behaviour: assessment).
Some Scandinavian countries report higher productivity from working shorter working hours.
1963 Iron Miners March Into Paris PARIS — Two thousand Iron-mine workers from the Lorraine region of eastern France marched on the capital today [March 13] to draw public attention to their demands for higher wages, shorter working hours and steps to insure continued employment.
"One can observe in France what can happen to an economy that relies on distribution, high taxes, shorter working hours and early retirement," he told delegates at the conference.
The present data differ from those of previous studies [2 4], in which determinants of severe burnout syndrome were associated with demographic characteristics, such as a high number of working hours and night shifts.
6 11 25 48 A recent study on Norwegian doctors in specialisation with data from 1999 to 2010 found the highest number of working hours per week in surgery, orthopaedics, anaesthesiology and internal medicine.
