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"reduced working time" is correct and commonly used in written English
This phrase refers to a shorter amount of time spent working, typically due to a change in employment or a decrease in workload. Example: "The company implemented a new policy of reduced working time in response to the current economic climate, allowing employees to have a better work-life balance."
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German firms last year reduced working time by the equivalent of 1.4m full-time employees.
We expect that this is due to the patients within the McDermott study experiencing other pain-related impacts on their health, for example, their sample had higher rates of depression/anxiety and reduced working time.
"A lot of workers are under pressure, apart from reduced working time, to take wage freezes or wage cuts of one sort or another," said John Monks, general secretary of the European Trade Union Confederation, an umbrella group for organized labor in Europe.
The number of hours of absenteeism was calculated from the patient-reported number of days (one day assumed to be equivalent to 7.4 hours) and half days (assumed to be equivalent to 3.7 hours) of reduced working time, sick leave due to RA, or sick leave due to other health problems.
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Germany also has measures to reduce working time, many of which are specifically framed as employment-saving measures.
The speed of construction of steel bridges is attributed to the fact that most of the bridge components can be prefabricated and transported to the construction field, which reduces working time in hostile environments.
I fear that this latest plan will drain the energies of the left in social policy and will divert attention from so many other worthwhile policy alternatives: the living wage, boosting trade unionism, free childcare, radical changes in housing policy, policies to reduce working time to limit turbo-consumption, green investment and so on.
Strip-tillage compared to the direct drilling is a good option for proper seedbed preparation because it ensures favourable conditions for seed germination; in comparison with full tillage it reduces working time, fuel and production costs, protects soil, and is environmentally friendly.
This is, perhaps, not surprising since STW is a programme that is explicitly designed to reduce working time.
It should be mentioned that a specific scheme, the part-time time-credit, allows workers above the age of 50 and with 5 years full-time within the same firm, to reduce working time either by 20%% or by 50%% until the age of statutory retirement.
Nickel titanium (NiTi) rotary instruments reduce working time, operator fatigue, and procedural errors during preparation [ 9].
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