The Washington county reduced hours due to a tight budget, but most employees say the shortened week has also improved their work-life balance.
The Washington county reduced hours due to a tight budget, but most employees say the shortened week has also improved their work-life balance.
This is worded funny, implying there are some who said less hours did not improve work life balance. I can’t really figure that.
Regardless I really wish this would catch on. 32hr workweek would be such an awesome improvement. But in the USA I’m really not holding my breath this would be adopted wide scale. Our system is about exploiting the worker not altruism. I just see big business fighting back hard for as long as possible.
FTA:
One reason I can see why someone wouldn’t agree with this statement is because an employee already has a great work/life balance, so while an extra 8 hours (plus commute) of free time is nice, it may not improve their work/life balance.
Also, there are exempt employees who may be negatively impacted by the initiative:
Or it could be that as the article also said,
Which implies that pay was cut and not everyone could do without that extra bit.
Nope. FTA:
It was part of their contract negotiation, and they took reduced hours in lieu of a pay increase.
That’s not what that’s implying. It explicitly states “most employees said…”. This implies others either said something else or just did not say something specifically with regard to work life balance.