"shorter work hours" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
For example, you might write "Since the pandemic began, many employers have implemented shorter work hours to help employees balance their work and home responsibilities."
But not all the gains in productivity have fed through to shorter work hours.
I did the day-to-day cooking and grocery shopping because I had shorter work hours than my husband, Peter.
And many state workers enjoy harder-to-calculate nonmonetary benefits like greater job security and shorter work hours.
By then, their Eastern peers had a year of paid maternity leave and shorter work hours if they nursed.
It is about thousands of jobs, which could be affected by shorter work hours, and the responsibility to tackle these problems constructively is very high".
But even if there are no long-run changes in work patterns, shorter work hours should be on everyone's list as a mechanism to combat unemployment.
Earlier this month workers at Jaguar Land Rover agreed a pay freeze and shorter working hours as an alternative to redundancies.
If the trend to shorter working hours continues this will also have a further major impact on the cost of health services.
If, instead, people care little about inequality, then the adjustment will be much smaller.Longer holidays and shorter working hours increase an individual's well-being, yet conventional national accounts completely overlook such benefits.
Measuring the cost of such schemes is complicated, Olsson says – it is hard to distinguish whether savings on sick leave, for example, are down to shorter working hours or other factors.
The weakening of the economy is likely to have a proportionally bigger impact on employment than in the recent recession, as real wages and shorter working hours may adjust less this time".
