Sentence examples for shorter working weeks from inspiring English sources

To share the benefits of employment equitably in a carbon and resource constrained world we may need more people working, probably with shorter working weeks, but producing less "stuff".

Even though many companies have extended shorter working weeks to prevent layoffs — and retain a work force they invested in training — the government subsidies supporting those programs will end next year.

Big changes will be needed to make shorter working weeks viable for low-income families.

Still, despite the tens of thousands of workers who have been put on shorter working weeks, the Merkel government has not yet faced huge anti-capitalist demonstrations.

Changes in the economy typically feature both technical solutions (eg carbon taxes) and adaptive challenges (eg shorter working weeks) and might be seen as a bridge between the two.

He also said temporary workers are likely to be hired for shorter working weeks, and predicted that over the coming years employers would seek to automate more low-paid tasks, for example with more self-scan machines at supermarket checkouts.

The advances in quality of life that this will bring might sound, today at least, like wishful thinking: less stuff, less stress, less work, more enjoyable work, longer holidays, a shorter working week.

Later, he called back to ask whether the idea was that people would cram five days' worth of work into the four days, or simply for a shorter working week.

In 2012, the NEF published a charming pamphlet also calling for a shorter working week.

The OECD counts 22 member governments that subsidise a shorter working week.

Our proposals offer better basic pay and safety for junior doctors, with a shorter working week".