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workweek

/wurk-week/US // ˈwɜrkˌwik //UK // (ˈwɜːkˌwiːk) //

工作周,工作周期,工作时间,工周

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the total number of regular working hours or days in a week.

Examples

  • A recent experiment with shorter workweeks in Iceland was a big success and generated headlines around the world, and American companies like Kickstarter are now trying out the idea.

  • A recent study of shorter workweeks in Iceland was a big success, boosting worker well-being and even productivity.

  • If you’re curious, five out of seven days — a workweek — is 71 percent.

  • In a bid to increase the satisfaction of municipal government employees— many of whom commute from Copenhagen, roughly fifty miles away— the town reduced their workweek to Monday through Thursday in 2019.

  • First, another above-normal one seems likely to close the workweek tomorrow.

  • To begin with, this is the country that introduced a 35-hour workweek.

  • As Douthat notes, a workweek is benificial to society, just like regular Church attendance.

  • A normal workweek is necessary because it forces us into a routine.

  • Rank-and-file retail workers logged the shortest workweek since early 2010: just 30.1 hours, on average, vs. 30.4 in December.

  • In the beginning of October, official NHL employees were placed on a four-day workweek and given a 20 percent salary cut.

  • In 1973 the country was in the process of shifting from a forty-six-hour, six-day workweek to a 42.5-hour, five-day workweek.

  • The reduced workweek has also contributed to the absorption of those released from war service and war work.

  • The shorter workweek had been in effect on an experimental basis for about 17 percent of the industrial workers since 1968.