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Oregon County Moves To Four Day Work Weeks

N. Dan Smith
Fri Sep 05 13:38:00 -0700 2008
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Clackamas Coutny in Oregon (part of the Portland metropolitan area) has announced that most of its employees will now be working four days a week.  Fewer work days means fewer commutes for the employees and less electricity and natural gas expenditure at the offices.  According to a spokesperson, the change "demonstrates our commitment to sustainability."

About three-fifths of employees will be effected because essential services will not change their schedules.  Employees moving to the new schedule will have ten hour work days, so there will be no net change in pay.

Oregon County Moves To Four Day Work Weeks
Uncle Entity
Fri Sep 05 15:44:15 -0700 2008
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Wouldn't this just push the energy usage to the homes of the workers instead of having them in an environment where they could share common lighting and heating?

Probably work out better with one less commuting day since they have all that hydro-electricity up there.

Oregon County Moves To Four Day Work Weeks
T Fluckiger
Fri Sep 05 17:46:19 -0700 2008
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This isn't about energy conservation. It is about state budgets.It can work for that.

T

Oregon County Moves To Four Day Work Weeks
Paul Jackson
Sat Sep 06 09:35:18 -0700 2008
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I worked 4x10 for the county's bridge crew back in the late 1970's it worked out good for that because we wasted a lot less time setting up, tearing down and transport vehicles and gear each day. The average 8 hour day is lucky to get 5 or 6 hours of real work, where on tens getting an honest 7 or 8 happens with the same amount of slack time so they'll get more bang for the buck

 

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