Word: workdays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Today America can go to the disco after work to unplug all that pent-up9-to-5 workday energy and see it gush and explode in the hanging mirrors...
...extending credit to the miners and not pressing them for payment, even though most of the merchants are also hurting financially. Close by Cabin Creek, business at the Marmet Furniture Store is off 50%. Down the road, employees of Wendy's Old Fashioned Hamburgers have had their workday cut from eight hours to five. At the Marmet Burger Chef, the work force, norImally 30 people, has been...
...borders a golf course and a river in which convicts can fish. Haldeman's sits at the edge of a blossom-filled valley devoted to the commercial production of flower seeds. Both prisons have outdoor playing fields and recreational periods that stretch from the end of the workday in midafternoon until prisoners choose to go to bed. Haldeman is living in a cubicle in a 30-man dormitory. Mitchell has one cellmate and, because he is over 40, is sure of getting a bottom bunk...
...schedules, and as the presumably prosperous summer of '77 approaches, some other employers are giving the concept a fresh look. In the Chicago offices of the big Foote, Cone & Belding ad agency, 550 employees this week begin a Memorial Day-to-Labor Day schedule that extends their workday to 9½ hours (8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m.) but allows staffers to take either Fridays or Mondays off. David Ofher, general manager of the office, sees the experiment as a reward for improved business in the Chicago branch during the past several years. Says...
...pleasant ways to pass the time. Their husbands are often away on business, or in jail, or calling on their mistresses. The wives are isolated not only by bodyguards but also by ignorance of the details of their husbands' business activities. The men's workday deeds are not discussed at dinner...