Sentence examples for shortened workdays from inspiring English sources

Overall, Americans are working 10percentt fewer total hours than they did before the recession, due to layoffs and shortened workdays, but we're producing nearly as many goods and services as we did back in the full employment days of 2007.

Other merchants are addressing the workers' complaints, raising wages and shortening workdays.

Mr. Hayes shortened his workday and his visits to the gym.

In 1995, under pressure from the National Transportation Safety Board and the Air Line Pilots Association, the F.A.A. proposed shortening pilots' workdays and redefining duty hours to include the time spent getting from plane to hotel and back.

He did not explain what he meant, but last summer he pushed unsuccessfully for the department to add 10 additional workdays for officers each year in exchange for slightly shortening the workday.

The additional 5percentt would be financed by shortening their workday slightly and by using those minutes to add 10 extra workdays each year, he said.

(This would shorten the workday in the spring but lengthen it in November).

Does owning a car really shorten our workday, giving us more time to read, exercise or sleep?

Ms Bachelet's son has been at the centre of an influence-peddling scandal.Venezuela's government decided to shorten the workday for public employees, from eight or nine hours to five-and-a-half, to savenergygy.

But by shortening the workday in Cairo, the Egyptian government is putting the cart before the horse: it is hoping for a better regulated city without tackling the causes of its dysfunction, namely poor urban planning, inadequate public transport and crumbling infrastructure.

Later, playgrounds were carved out in congested areas, and facilities for games and sports were established not only for children but also for adults, whose workdays gradually shortened.