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In 2023, the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), when quantifying across 27 countries the commute time savings associated with remote work, found that the average daily time savings when working from home was 72 minutes in our sample. (forbes.com)
World Breastfeeding Week 2023: Let´s make breastfeeding and work, work! (bvsalud.org)
For the week ending October 20, 2023, John Mandrola, MD comments on the following news and features stories. (medscape.com)

Organizations made a sweeping shift towards remote work when the world grappled with the pandemic. (forbes.com)
The COVID-19 pandemic required many companies to adopt a flexible work schedule to keep their operations open. (ieee.org)
The pandemic has people and businesses reevaluating how they work and how much they work. (tpr.org)

The general public needs to consider that teachers' work doesn't end with the day's final school bell. (edweek.org)

Trade unions representing the EU's army of 55,000 officials have refused to discuss proposals for a 40 hour working week - an extra 2.5 hours - the key measure in a Brussels drive to save taxpayers £870 million a year by 2020. (telegraph.co.uk)

This change highlighted a strong preference among employees for flexible work arrangements, with a Stanford University study reporting a 13 percent productivity increase among remote workers. (forbes.com)
The comfort of working from home, combined with the energizing dynamics of the office environment, can significantly enhance employee productivity. (forbes.com)
This is a good discussion to be having in a country where people work among the longest hours in the world and where productivity growth has massively outstripped wage growth in recent decades. (greenleft.org.au)
People working full-time in a virtual-reality environment have lower productivity and well-being, and increased anxiety, according to a new study. (newscientist.com)
Shorter work weeks aimed at boosting worker productivity and happiness are catching on in parts of the world like Iceland and the United Kingdom . (cnn.com)

However, while remote work holds undeniable benefits, the value of face-to-face interaction remains vital, a sentiment echoed by 81 percent of remote workers in a 2021 BCG report . (forbes.com)
19 December 2021 - In the Eastern Mediterranean Region, 6 countries (Islamic Republic of Iran, Jordan, Morocco, Oman, Pakistan and Tunisia) celebrated the ninth International Lead Poisoning Prevention Week. (who.int)
The ninth International Lead Poisoning Prevention Week was held on 24-30 October 2021, with 9 events in 6 of the particpating countries organized by governments, civil society organizations, health partners, academic, industry, and other institutions. (who.int)

c) To propose in Part III the draft procedural decisions designed to facilitate the work of the Sixty-fifth World Health Assembly in accordance with relevant decisions of the Executive Board and the World Health Assembly, concerning the method of work and duration of the World Health Assembly. (who.int)
5 weeks duration, approximately 5 hours of course work per week. (lu.se)

On his fourteenth track appearance, in the autumn of his five-year-old season, Work All Week was moved up to Grade III class for the first time when he contested the Stoll Keenon Ogden Phoenix Stakes over six furlongs at Keeneland Racecourse. (wikipedia.org)
The longer week is vital to a European Commission plan to save money by cutting the number of EU officials by five per cent at a time when national public sector workers are facing huge redundancies and sweeping austerity programmes. (telegraph.co.uk)
But everything from answering emails to grading papers adds up: A typical teacher works about 54 hours a week-with just under half of that time devoted to directly teaching students, a new survey finds. (edweek.org)
But if you take a closer look at what actually goes into good teaching, how much time that takes, and how teachers are compensated for that work, you'll find that teachers' work weeks are in many ways just as taxing, if not more so, than in other careers, and that they receive much lower pay and less public respect, Holdheide said. (edweek.org)
Weavers' Work Week is an annual tradition at the Folk School where skilled weavers are invited to come for a week and volunteer their time to do projects around campus and make improvements in the studio. (folkschool.org)
A rise in casual and part-time work has since dropped the average work-week in Australia to about 31 hours. (smh.com.au)
Other business leaders, such as Google ( GOOG ) CEO Larry Page, have backed a shorter work week , noting: "Most people like working, but they'd also like to have more time with their family or to pursue their own interests. (cbsnews.com)
If you're working 55 or 60 hours a week, you're wasting your time. (businessinsider.com)
Many allowed their employees to work from home full time. (ieee.org)
In their new paper, Isabel Sawhill and Katherine Guyot explore the evolution of working time in the U.S. and how that compares to other high-income countries, noting that Americans are working longer. (brookings.edu)
They document what they call the "middle-class time squeeze," brought about, they say, "mainly by the failure of many policies and practices surrounding work and family life to adapt to the rising need for families to have a second earner. (brookings.edu)
The chart above shows the fraction of the workforce in part-time work by gender. (brookings.edu)
While in the U.S. the gap is smaller than most other developed nations, "women's labor force participation is lower in the U.S. than in much of Western Europe and Scandinavia, perhaps because of fewer opportunities to work part-time. (brookings.edu)
Throughout this whole season, opposing defenses have had to spend time each week focusing on what to do when Jackson comes into games, not knowing when and how often he'll be on the field. (baltimoreravens.com)
Offerings and regular giving mean that Week of Compassion is nimble and responsive when immediate needs press in, at the same time annual distributions from endowment giving provide support for years to come. (weekofcompassion.org)
He says some wealthy countries have shortened their total work hours per year, but mainly through things like government-mandated leave time and more vacation. (tpr.org)
The theory is that going too hard too frequently can actually work against you, because lifting weights is pretty intense and tears up your muscles, so you want to give them time to rebuild before working them again. (vice.com)
Questions problematic for respondents included those with constantly shifting reference periods throughout the survey, questions that required respondents to spend additional time parsing out multi-part questions with densely packed text, and questions that required the execution of several independent complex calculations (i.e. overall hours of specific daily school and extracurricular activities, number of weeks they participated in a specific activity). (cdc.gov)
I have now blogged for two weeks and my time is up. (lu.se)
So, the intervals for the, at least for the vaccines that are currently under consideration are three weeks or four weeks, and you can see that that's shorter than the shorter follow-up time. (cdc.gov)
The extra work time per day was a major factor in producing poorer performance/alertness scores on the 12hr shift. (cdc.gov)

Trials show that shorter weeks for the same pay are popular and successful. (smh.com.au)
So this new crop of companies experimenting with shorter weeks is kind of a blip, he says. (tpr.org)

Imagine a workplace model that combines the flexibility of remote work with the rich, dynamic interactions of an office environment, all within a rejuvenating four-day workweek. (forbes.com)
The consulting firm, 4 Day Week Global, has also been tracking various four-day workweek efforts. (forbes.com)
When I worked for a company in Texas a few years ago, one of the benefits I enjoyed was a four-and-a-half-day workweek. (ieee.org)
Would you like to work a four-day workweek? (ieee.org)
In a survey of companies that are offering the option-conducted by the 4 Day Week Global organization, which promotes a reduced work schedule-63 percent said the shorter workweek makes it easier to attract and retain talent, and 78 percent of employees reported being happier and less stressed. (ieee.org)
Kickstarter, Shopify, Shake Shack - these are all companies exploring a reduced workweek - like, say, from five days a week to four. (tpr.org)
HOROWITZ-GHAZI: By the late 19th century, Hunnicutt says, the workweek begins to shrink to something closer to 60 hours a week for more and more people. (tpr.org)

In New Zealand, Andrew Barnes and Charlotte Lockhart trialled a four-day week at their company, Perpetual Guardian, in 2018. (smh.com.au)

Although the differences between employment sectors and fields of work boil down to an extra hour or so a couple of days a week, the authors say the figures have only a 5 percent chance of being random variations. (nsf.gov)
Jobs, 54, is working from Apple's Cupertino, Calif., headquarters "a few days a week" and working from home the remaining days, Apple spokesman Steve Dowling said Monday. (technologyreview.com)
However, until 2015, banks were operational six days a week, including all Saturdays of a month. (thehindubusinessline.com)
Factories spring up with machines whirring from dawn until dusk, often six days a week. (tpr.org)
Is it as effective to do 3-4 days a week, but longer, full-body lifting sessions? (vice.com)

Those employed by federal, state or local governments worked the fewest hours, averaging 45.2 per week. (nsf.gov)
In this week we discuss how local governments can influence urban lifestyles and the creation of sustainable cities and how the sharing economy practices and organisations. (lu.se)

Iceland has acted on it: while both men and women already had generous parental leave, working hours were higher than its Nordic neighbours in 2015 when trials started to cut the 40-hour working week. (smh.com.au)
She's leading four-day work week trials in countries like the US and Ireland, and the results so far have been overwhelmingly positive: from increased employer and customer satisfaction to revenue growth and lower turnover. (ted.com)
Last week, I covered a paper that was in the European Heart Journal that documented extremely low use of intravascular imagine (IVI) for PCI, which I found weird because I also found multiple clinical trials and meta-analyses showing substantial reductions in major adverse cardiac events (MACE) outcomes. (medscape.com)

Over the last few years this has begun to change, as more and more Californians are using their bicycles to commute to work or to school. (calitics.com)
Government critics have questioned how much difference the four-day week will make, saying that while state sector employees typically live far from Colombo most use public transport for their commute. (cnn.com)

Speaking at a conference in Paraguay last week, the Mexican billionaire advocated what he described as a "radical overhaul" in the way people work that would allow people to work past the age of 70, 9 years longer then the typical retirement age of a U.S. worker , according to the Financial Times . (cbsnews.com)
said last week that Jobs had received a liver transplant, confirming an earlier report in The Wall Street Journal. (technologyreview.com)
Another brisk rally last week lifted the Dow Jones Industrial Average 253 points, bringing the index back to within 4 percent of its highest close. (csmonitor.com)
Kaepernick worked out for the San Francisco 49ers and Philadelphia Eagles last week and has visits scheduled with the Tennessee Titans , Miami Dolphins , Denver Broncos and Kansas City Chiefs this week. (nfl.com)
It's the first day back at work after spending a great work week in London with the Jetpack team last week. (oxymoronical.com)

How many people come to Weavers' Work Week? (folkschool.org)
And here lies the other side of the coin for him: "People are willing to work harder. (smh.com.au)
Denis Moriarty: "People are willing to work harder. (smh.com.au)
Until the two-day weekend took hold, people tended to work half of Saturday - Sunday was the only full day off. (smh.com.au)
Other sectors followed if they could show cost offsets as a condition of people working fewer hours. (smh.com.au)
In everything she's done, said Kilburn, she's put her faith to work, not just on the side of the poor and the needy, but in true solidarity with them, "with loving attention to the small things, and small people. (indyweek.com)
Carlos Slim, the world's second-wealthiest person according to Forbes , thinks he's stumbled upon the solution to enable people to balance their work and home lives: A three-day work week. (cbsnews.com)
The only catch to Slim's plan is that people would have to work 11-hour days, a trade-off that he says will generate huge benefits for both workers and employers. (cbsnews.com)
I wanted to display Black Lives Matter, because in today's society Black people are going through racial injustice and we need to raise awareness for them," said Jayden Urena, another teen participating in the Leadership Works program. (ny1.com)
Serving on behalf of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), working with partners to alleviate suffering throughout the world, toward the vision of a world where God's people transform suffering into hope. (weekofcompassion.org)
HUNNICUTT: People who were working 10 hours - surprise, surprise - got tired. (tpr.org)
I see a lot of people on TikTok posting their six-day-a-week workout splits and am wondering if it's necessary to lift that many times a week to see progress. (vice.com)
Bro splits are workouts that are broken up pretty granularly by body part, and are often used by people who are focused on "aesthetics," or the way that working out affects how you look. (vice.com)
Most beginning strength programs have people working their whole body three times a week, because that's a sweet spot for progressing but also not being too challenging or taxing. (vice.com)

Six years later, unions had negotiated a shorter week, or the right to one, for 86 per cent of the country's workers . (smh.com.au)
Workers who opt for a four-day week will put in 10 hours a day, but will be asked to work weekends and holidays. (cnn.com)
Industry observers told The Japan Times that with Japan facing labor shortages, other retailers, restaurants and service businesses might follow Uniqlo's lead and offer a compressed work week to attract workers. (cnn.com)
There are other, more practical reasons why many workers might find a shorter work week more appealing. (cbsnews.com)
And working a lot of overtime creates a level of burnout that sets in far sooner, is far more acute, and requires much more to fix than most bosses or workers think it does. (businessinsider.com)
She explains that hundreds of studies through the 1930s-60s showed that industrial workers had eight hours of good work in them. (businessinsider.com)
Many other workers spend a substantial part of the work day driving a vehicle owned or leased by their employer, or a personal vehicle. (cdc.gov)
It said the shorter week will also benefit workers affected by power cuts and transport disruptions caused by the food and gas shortages. (cnn.com)
It's largely in white-collar work, and what makes sense there won't necessarily work for a huge swath of workers in industries like manufacturing, food service and health care. (tpr.org)

A handful of Australian organisations and several hundred around the world are trialling a four-day work week, dismantling the five days that car magnate Henry Ford standardised for full-timers in the 1920s. (smh.com.au)
Making the case for a four-day, 32-hour work week (with five days of pay), Schor explains how this model for the future of work could address major challenges like burnout and the climate crisis -- and shares how companies and governments could work together to make it a reality. (ted.com)
If approved, it would mean that bank branches will work only for five days in a week, that is, Monday to Friday. (thehindubusinessline.com)

Thomas B. Hoffer and Karen Grigorian, of the University of Chicago's National Opinion Research Center, analyzed data from NSF's 2003 Survery of Doctorate Recipients taken for the reference week of Oct. 1 of that year. (nsf.gov)
So, v- safe conducts electronic health check ins with vaccine recipients daily for the first week post vaccination then weekly thereafter until six weeks post vaccination, and then additional health checks at three, six, and 12 months post vaccination. (cdc.gov)

I just make a list each year of what needs to be worked on for the coming WWW year. (folkschool.org)
They say they'll be ready to make ethical choices once they are working for a living. (csmonitor.com)
It's vital for us to keep doing work weeks and all hands like this to make sure everyone gets to know everyone and is working together towards the same goals. (oxymoronical.com)
According to experts, many bro splits work the various kinds of muscles too infrequently to be the most effective way to make you stronger or bigger, ~unless~ you are taking steroids. (vice.com)

In 1856, skill shortages shifted bargaining power to stonemasons in Melbourne who led the world in gaining an eight-hour work day. (smh.com.au)
That paper also reported that major Japanese companies temporarily offered four-day work weeks as a way to address power shortages in 2011 following the nuclear disaster in Fukushima. (cnn.com)

According to newly released data, biologists and agricultural scientists work the most hours. (nsf.gov)
Computer scientists and engineers work more than mathematicians or psychologists do, and biologists and agricultural scientists work more than everyone, says an NSF survey of the average work weeks of doctoral scientists and engineers. (nsf.gov)
It seems appropriate to grant government officials leave of one working day … to engage in agricultural activities in their backyards or elsewhere as a solution to the food shortage that is expected," the Department of Government Information said on Tuesday. (cnn.com)

But ever since software company Our Community shifted to a four-day week, its employees began to share with colleagues what they did on their days off. (smh.com.au)
The Japanese fashion brand Uniqlo said this week it will offer it as an option to 10,000 of its Japan-based store employees come October. (cnn.com)
WICHITA-Some Textron Aviation employees began reporting back to work on Jan. 6 inside the company's east Wichita Plant 3, including employees assigned to the new Cessna SkyCourier development program, following an explosion last month, a company spokeswoman said. (aviationweek.com)
For specific steps employers can take to protect their employees and their companies see Work-Related Roadway Crashes: Prevention Strategies for Employers . (cdc.gov)

Resources for general work zone mobility guidelines for engineering and technical staff. (michigan.gov)

Learn more about how you could persuade your company's leadership to trial a four-day week. (ted.com)

Do you have a question about working out, eating, health, or why you shouldn't be afraid of lifting heavy weights? (vice.com)
The aim of the Week is to raise awareness about the health effects of lead exposure, highlight the efforts of countries and partners to prevent exposure, particularly of children, and to stimulate further action to eliminate lead paint through national regulation. (who.int)

Discover how our work creates meaningful and measurable results that drive positive change in the communities we serve. (who.int)

In those [fill Q52] weeks that you volunteered for [fill organization], how many hours per week did you do volunteer activities? (cdc.gov)

In addition to the many informal opportunities to connect with colleagues throughout Work Truck Week, there also are several official events on the agenda. (contractormag.com)

The EU staff unions are also opposed to any changes to a generous flexitime scheme that meant that 2,000 Brussels officials, earning from £104,000 to £185,000 a year, were entitled to three months off work on full pay last year. (telegraph.co.uk)
Despite being paid six figure salaries, the EU's most senior civil servants have been allowed to join the scheme, originally meant for lower paid secretarial staff, that gives them an extra 24 days off work every year for those that put in an extra 45 minutes a day in the office. (telegraph.co.uk)
The allowances mean that last year many EU staff were entitled to 66 days, 13 weeks or a over quarter of the year off work. (telegraph.co.uk)
However, the four-day week will not apply to "essential services" staff working in hospitals and ports or those in the power and water sectors. (cnn.com)
It is our goal to improve overall safety for all road users, internal staff, contractors performing work on roads, and emergency responders. (michigan.gov)
The Internship Program offers undergraduate and graduate students interested in civil engineering and construction management careers, valuable experience by working with professional field staff. (michigan.gov)

That does not mean a week of relaxation in the "fire world. (thesca.org)
It's a great week in the Fire World! (thesca.org)
After kickstarting her spectacular "ANTI World Tour" over the weekend, the singer's Drake-assisted single rules the Billboard Hot 100 for a fourth consecutive week. (rap-up.com)
A Week's Worth: Quick takes on the world of work and money. (csmonitor.com)

This week explains why cities are strategically important to sustainable development, climate change and greening the economy and the concept of sustainable urban transformation is presented as a foundation for understanding urban change processes. (lu.se)

SWAP Working Holidays is a Canadian-owned organization that has been working for over 45 years to promote cultural exchange opportunities to Canadians. (swap.ca)

From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox. (theweek.com)

After churning out those six hours of hard mental work, your brain clocks out and you're pretty much useless, says Robinson. (businessinsider.com)

For more insight and commentary on these stories, subscribe to the This Week in Cardiology podcast , download the Medscape app or subscribe on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , or your preferred podcast provider. (medscape.com)

As Mattern's friends, 250 of them, gathered a week ago in Raleigh to celebrate her life and bid her farewell as she goes to die, they all said, in one way or another, it's like her. (indyweek.com)
For many white-collar types, they mean something beyond a season to celebrate: more work. (csmonitor.com)

Work All Week is a chestnut gelding with a white blaze bred in Illinois by Richard and Karen Papiese's Midwest Thoroughbreds Inc. His sire City Zip, a half-brother to Ghostzapper, showed his best form as a two-year-old in 2000 when he won the Hopeful Stakes and dead-heated for first place in the Belmont Futurity. (wikipedia.org)
Work All Week did not race as a juvenile and ran only once as a three-year-old in 2012. (wikipedia.org)
As a four-year-old, Work All Week was campaigned over sprint distances and won seven of his eight races, competing mainly in the Mid-West. (wikipedia.org)
Work All Week moved south in early 2014, having his first two races of the year at Oaklawn Park in Arkansas. (wikipedia.org)
How was Weavers' Work Week this year? (folkschool.org)
Since I am the one who heads this up, I take notes all year on what would be a suitable project and who would be most helpful in working on that project. (folkschool.org)
Meanwhile, a Senate committee looking at how peoples' jobs and care responsibilities could be better combined recommended this year that Australia try out a four-day week. (smh.com.au)
When the House returns after the Independence Day recess, they have just six legislative weeks scheduled in which to fund the government before the end of the fiscal year on Sept. 30. (rollcall.com)
From his debut novel, "Aurora Dawn," in 1947, to his last book, "Sailor and Fiddler: Reflections of a 100-Year-Old Author" - published in 2015 when he had reached a century - Wouk wove themes central to the American Jewish experience throughout his work. (washingtonjewishweek.com)
This year, we're emphasizing the many ways Work Truck Week increasingly gives you more: more equipment, more connections and more answers," says Steve Carey , NTEA president & CEO. (contractormag.com)
The installations took a few weeks to put up in the space, but the space itself has been under rapid construction for the last year. (indyweek.com)

National planning assists in determining the actions that should be taken in the upcoming weeks, months, and years to prevent, detect, and respond to risks and threats. (who.int)
Decrements in the laboratory type tests of performance/alertness, attributable to the extra 4hr of work per day, were observed after 7 months on the new schedule. (cdc.gov)

After a recent trial by 10 Australian companies and 16 overseas, only one workplace did not continue with a four-day week. (smh.com.au)
The massive Work Truck Show exhibit hall showcases commercial vehicles, equipment and other products-many revealed during Work Truck Week-from 500 companies. (contractormag.com)

Other churches are dreaming up fundraising campaigns, writing into their strategic plans, and even having cluster conversations, to find ways to be part of this Circle covenant to move Week of Compassion steadily into the future. (weekofcompassion.org)

Finally, if you have a bike, and live reasonably close to your workplace, consider taking part in Bike to Work Week. (calitics.com)

If you dreaded a return to work today, the idea of taking Mondays off may seem pretty good. (abc.net.au)

This week of action is an initiative of the Global Alliance to Eliminate Lead Paint (the Lead Paint Alliance), which is jointly led by the United Nations Environment Programme and WHO. (who.int)

So, on February 4, 2015 I sent a letter to the "powers that be" and got Weavers' Work Week back on the schedule. (folkschool.org)
I'd also like to know your thoughts about an abbreviated work schedule. (ieee.org)
The locations of MetroLink maintenance work planned for later this week have changed due to some work being completed ahead of schedule last weekend. (metrostlouis.org)
FARMINGTON HILLS, MI - NTEA - The Work Truck Association ™ has released the full Work Truck Week ® 2024 schedule and opened registration and housing for North America's largest work truck event. (contractormag.com)
While I enjoy working out, that seems like a hard schedule to stick to. (vice.com)

With the exception of "The Caine Mutiny," reviews of Wouk's works were typically mixed. (washingtonjewishweek.com)

House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy announced Wednesday that the House would no longer be expected to hold votes this Friday, cutting their work week short and allowing lawmakers to head home early for the week-long Independence Day recess. (rollcall.com)

This week presents discusses urban living labs including the engagement, exploration, experiments, evaluation and entrepreneurs. (lu.se)

Plenty of sunshine this week with only a few fair weather clouds drifting by, and no real rain chances for the foreseeable future. (katc.com)
Your guide will be helping you with anything and everything from resume writing to farm work information, to organising any future travel plans you may have. (swap.ca)

But does a four-day working week actually work? (abc.net.au)

And sometimes teachers get overlooked for school leadership positions if they're unwilling to take on extra work outside of contracted hours, Jiner said. (edweek.org)

What is Weavers' Work Week, and how did it start? (folkschool.org)
The forecast is staying quiet for the start of the new work week with a continuation of some beautiful weather. (katc.com)
SWAP's Work in Australia + Sydney 4-Day Welcome Week has unbeatable value and is the perfect way to start your working holiday adventure down under! (swap.ca)

You'll get the chance to spend a week exploring beautiful Sydney with a group of fellow newly arrived travellers! (swap.ca)

To encourage this, May has been declared "National Bike Month" and May 12-16 is Bike to Work Week . (calitics.com)
SEATTLE (AP) - Apple Inc. co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs is back at work after a five-and-a-half-month medical leave, during which he received a liver transplant. (technologyreview.com)

They will work on the looms, clean and organize the equipment and yarn room, sort and catalog the Fiber Library, and weave items for the Folk School. (folkschool.org)
A drying trend will take us through the new work and school week. (nbc29.com)

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