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To begin with what about a four day working week.

And for every other minute of the working week too.

I know that it can often amount to half the working week.

The right to a 5-day working week was finally achieved in 1963.

Most of the people in local government have already adopted the 20 hour working week system.

For the first three years, 58-hour working weeks are permitted.

The beginning of the working week was preferred more to the end.

Do you think they are going to reduce the working week in the interests of the country as a whole?

Another of its early acts was to set the standard working week at 48 hours.

We lose a holiday for to get an hour off the working week.

The new law sets a 48-hour limit on the working week.

Commuters on their way home after a long working week.

The rest of the employed staff work hours and days similar to a standard five day working week.

Aim for a couple of short working weeks and include enough time to plan your next trip.

When is all this technology going to make life easier for everyone and reduce the working week?

See our guide on hours, rest breaks and the working week.

The solution is to bring in a maximum working week.

Industrial workers in general used their shorter working week to do a second job.

From 1 August 2009 their maximum working week fell to 48 hours.

In 1947, the working week was reduced again, to forty hours.

All studies clearly show that long working weeks are harmful to both safety and health.

They are split into five teams, each having responsibility for one day of the working week.

I think 3 day working weeks should become the norm rather than the exception.

Only now is the working week for Greek public employees being raised from 37.5 to 40 hours.

I like the idea of a 20 hour working week, but it would leave me struggling to pay the bills.

If possible, you should plan to visit during the workweek.

Increase the workweek for city workers to at least 40 hours.

When the first child is a girl, workweeks increase by less than an hour.

Try to time your first day back toward the end of the workweek rather than the beginning.

A workweek fighting a big fire can go 100 hours.

Add to that 30 hours of school, and they had a 78-hour workweek, which is far too long.

Today the average workweek is 40 hours, with a much higher standard of living.

Each month, they get an additional day off to keep the workweek to 40 hours.

He was definitely not looking forward to the coming workweek.

Sunday is the first day of the workweek in Israel.

The workweek in Iran is based on a 44-hour week.

The average workweek, according to the survey, is 54 hours.

If they put this much effort into their workweeks - well, why even think that way?

And 19 percent said they spend part of their regular workweek working at home.

The law sets the legal workweek at six days or 45 hours.

While the 40-hour workweek is common, longer hours are not uncommon.

"According to her sources, it was the first day of the workweek."

Just reading about her workweek made me want to take a nap.

By 1981, the Yankees played just one day game at home during the workweek.

More important, they say, is a changing perception of the workweek.

Also, the average workweek in the private sector fell by 12 minutes.

In October, the workweek rose by 6 minutes, to 42.1 hours.

The manufacturing workweek increased by 0.1 hour to 40.5 hours.

For people with children, however, 70-hour workweeks may not be their idea of balancing work and personal lives.

Most people are happy on Friday because their workweek ends.