BOOK

Work less : new strategies for a changing workplace

Peirce, Jon (Jonathan Charles), author

2024

Overview

\"You can't have a healthy economy with an unhealthy work force. Work Less proposes ways to reduce work hours and keep workers happier, healthier, and more productive. Recent years have revealed just how stressed out many workers are. While the trend to longer hours has been developing for several decades, the trend's effects have been aggravated during the pandemic by the growing use of Zoom and other new technologies for meetings with clients, customers, and co-workers. Exhausted and fed up, today's workers are starting to insist on shorter hours and greater flexibility as to where they do their work. There is growing consensus that the forty-hour week, the norm since the 1940s, has outlived its usefulness. And there is an urgent need for new work schedules that adequately reflect the far greater intensity of work today, as well as the greater non-work demands on a work force that is nearly half female. Work Less offers practical scheduling suggestions to employers and workers and numerous policy options for government policy-makers to improve working conditions.\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Dundurn Press
• Subject: Hours of labor. / Labor productivity. / Employee morale. / Quality of work life. / Personnel Moral. / Qualité de la vie au travail. / Employee morale / Hours of labor / Labor productivity / Quality of work life
• ISBN: 9781459751316, 1459751310

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
HD5106 .P45 2024	1	BOOK	CATALOGING