Eight-hour day

facing me at this time. I find myself becoming overwhelmed after a twelve hour work day, returning to my home and family responsibilities, and then going straight to work on my online and regular classes. Allotting time for reading and reflection, beginning the online studies…

The Trade unions and the employees in New Zealand (NZ) have kept expressing their concerns over the secrecy of TPPA negotiations through various protests. On the 25th of March this year, thousands of people around NZ came out to protest against the government’s position over the TPPA. The secret nature of the TPPA was criticised. Moreover, the secrecy was considered as selling out NZ’s sovereignty to the globalization and profit-seeking corporations. Dr Jane Kelsey, a professor at the Auckland…

beginning of time, there has always been 24 hour days, which amount to 168 hour weeks, however despite this constant in time, the amount of hours in a week people spend working is on an immutable…

have looked at a 8 hour shift and a 40 hour work week similar to police. This option usually is not viabale due to the fact it requires a 40% increase in a current staff size within a department that already employs a 24 hour on duty shift scheduel. (Davis, 2000) points out that a 12/12 split shift can show a benefit of overtime savings as compared to a 24 hours shift because less hours need to be paid if a employee calls off, but it is further pointed out that a 10/14 hour shift would be more…

over the years, and that is attributed to the changes in the management systems. In the 19th and start of the 20th century, workers in the US were faced with various problems. The problems included low wages, poor working conditions, long working hours and a poor working relationship between the employees and their seniors. Apparently, this led to the formation of labor unions and trade unions to help in addressing the workers issues (Broadberry & Irwin, 2004). However, the labor unions did not…

ordinary white-collar worker and does not have a college degree, he wanted to prove his good personality and working ability to his boss through working overload so as to get a promotion opportunity which he can never reach if he work only on regular hours or regular amounts (Kawanishi, 70). As a result for the expectations of the employers, the amount of work assigned to every employee is greatly increased by a tacit agreement, from both the employers and…

In the following articles I have weighed both sides of why it would be beneficial to shorten the eight hour work day to six hours standard . In my opinion I believe both articles raise very interesting reasons. The productivitey of workers increase clearly. Some companies in Sweden already have implimented this technique. My only concern is the echonomic cost might not provide families with enough wages for their needs of life and can also cause many health problems. Firstly, I have read…

guarantee in order to make Wings of Fire more competitive. Delivery Performance: Tony isn’t worried about guaranteeing “30 minutes’ delivery or it’s free” on every day of the week besides football Saturday’s because he knows that our delivery system will be able to deliver under that time frame. Football Saturday’s would be the only day of the week where it would be more…

“The Death of the Moth”, by Virginia Woolf, and “The Spider and the Wasp”, by Alexander Petrunkevitch, had both similar and different ways of expressing tones. Both Woolf's and Petrunkevitch's writing styles are similar. They both use descriptive imagery and details. Some examples of this in Petrunkevitch's essay are "the exasperated spider" and "soft membrane". Another example, this time in Woolf's essay, is "hay-coloured wings, fringed with a tassel of the same colour". These descriptive…

experiences, some people are better at it than others, but we all struggle with it. Life is a busy thing and we often fall behind. This project gives some insight as to how time is being spent by tracking every action made for twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, for an entire week. The data collected provides an opportunity to look at where time is being spent throughout the week and can be helpful in showing where time is be wasted the most. After collecting the data, schedule…