It's family time, hobby time, catch-a-breath-before-a-new-workweek time, according to the following unscientific survey.
In this era of multitasking, hundred-hour workweeks, time management professionals and scheduled play dates for children, I enjoy taking a break from getting something done and downshifting from fifth gear into neutral.
The forty-hour workweek with time-and-a-half for overtime also helped share the work and spread the gains, as did a minimum wage.
These include Social Security, a 40-hour workweek with time-and-a-half for overtime, worker health and safety, worker's compensation if injured on the job, family and medical leave, minimum wage, pension protection, unemployment insurance, protection against racial or gender discrimination, and the right to bargain collectively.
Specifically, it seems as if Jeff is quicker to criticize or fuss with the women, while the men are not reprimanded for sub-40-hour workweeks or times when they disappear without permission.
Europe enjoys one of the world's most prosperous economies while still managing to balance the workweek and leisure time, and yet the critics aren't satisfied.
It doesn't matter if you are a fashion warrior coming off four weeks of nonstop catwalk shows or a 9-to-5er finishing up a workweek, it's time for a bit of pampering — Paris style.
I knew that the workweek was our time, when I could still catch glimpses of the real you: the Chinese ladies returning from the Essex Street Market, the local kids playing ball at Roosevelt Park, the tattooed cartoonist stationed in the window across the courtyard.
About how many hours are you on-call duty on a weekday and weekend?" The standard full time workweek is between 38-40 hours in Norway and 40-42 hours in Germany [ 17, 18], and almost all our respondents worked at least this much.
The average workweek for full-time manufacturing employees was a whopping 100 hours.
