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Will the Four‐Day, 40‐Hour Work Week Replace the Five‐Day 40‐Hour Work Week?
Author(s) -
Anderson David C.
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
journal ‐ american water works association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.466
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1551-8833
pISSN - 0003-150X
DOI - 10.1002/j.1551-8833.1980.tb04483.x
Subject(s) - overtime , schedule , operations management , work hours , work (physics) , work schedule , names of the days of the week , working hours , productivity , sick leave , service (business) , medicine , business , engineering , labour economics , economics , management , physical therapy , marketing , scheduling (production processes) , mechanical engineering , linguistics , philosophy , macroeconomics
Rapid growth in Gladstone, Mo., resulted In Increased requests for the services provided by the water and wastewater department. These requests in turn created demands for additional overtime hours—a demand the city had a difficult time meeting until the institution of a four‐day work week. The new schedule resulted in increased productivity, decreased overtime and sick leave, and better service.