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...creep back up, Tyson and some private forecasters see a chance for it to go down further. The reasoning: inventories by one estimate are the lowest in 20 years, but factory orders are up, 1.2% in October; presumably they will have to be filled by new production. The average workweek in manufacturing has increased to 41.7 hours, the most since World War II, which leaves little or no room to raise output by working the existing staff still harder. Some factories will have to hire again...
Finnegan's Week by Joseph Wambaugh (Morrow; 348 pages) is a caper story of a kind, if getting through the workweek without sinking into occupational depression, or into yet another doomed marriage, can be called a caper. Finbar Finnegan is a San Diego cop with three ex-wives and a receding hairline, but only in real life. He hates his job and wants to be an actor, and as this cheerfully silly tale commences, he is mugging into the bathroom mirror, preparing to audition for the part of a contract killer on a TV cop show...
...effort to avoid laying off even more workers, Volkswagen's management board proposed a four-day workweek for its 108,000 workers at six western German factories -- and a wage...
...questionnaire. Still, the anecdotal evidence gathered in 902 personal interviews with women mostly between the ages of 32 and 45 suggests that Hillary Rodham Clinton's peers often face punishment on the job for daring to get pregnant, taking a few weeks of maternity leave and shortening their workweek. Swiss and Walker call it "the maternal wall...
...most obvious effects of downsizing is that the employees who survive are forced to work longer and harder. In February the manufacturing workweek stretched to 41.5 hours, the longest in 27 years. The resulting increase in stress leads to discontent, lowers creativity and undermines corporate loyalty. A study by the American Management Association last year showed that of more than 500 firms surveyed that had cut jobs since 1987, more than 75% reported that employee morale had collapsed. Indeed, two-thirds of the companies showed no increase in efficiency at all and less than half saw any improvement in profits...