Sentence examples for preferred hour from inspiring English sources

We know from his wife's memoir that he was in the habit of formally renouncing not just writing but also drinking, playing the violin, and - on a regular basis - smoking (seven minutes past four, the time of his mother's death, was his preferred hour for smoking his "last" cigarette).

Telehomework is associated with moderate increases in actual hours, but not in contracted or preferred hours.

For contracted and preferred hours, the correlations with telehomework are statistically insignificant for the male sample.

Furthermore, the work-life fit of employees may not increase but rather decrease if preferred hours stay the same.

For the female sample, the correlations between flexi-time and contracted or preferred hours even turn out to be negative.

Telehomework is associated with moderate increases in actual hours, but not in contracted or preferred hours, which implies that telehomework is primarily associated with more overtime.

We therefore not only analyse the impact of TLF on actual working hours but consider contracted and preferred hours as well.

Contracted and preferred hours are on average 2 to 3 h longer for flex-timers and telehomeworkers than for their colleagues without those types of TLF.

The correlation coefficients on actual hours are always larger than those on contracted and preferred hours and the coefficients on flexi-time are larger than those on telehomework (with one exception, namely actual hours of female employees).

All correlation coefficients are positive and significantly different from zero, except for the male sample, where the correlations between telehomework and contracted and preferred hours, respectively, are not significant.

If only actual and (unpaid) overtime hours increase but contracted and preferred hours do not, workers may not benefit from the increase in working hours through higher income (assuming that the hourly wage would stay the same after an increase in contracted hours).