"The most powerful weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed..."
- Steve Biko
Utah - That Bastion of Progressiveism (Organized Labor, Where For Art Thou?):
After 12 months, Utah's experiment has been deemed so successful that a new acronym could catch on: TGIT (thank God it's Thursday). The state found that its compressed workweek resulted in a 13% reduction in energy use and estimated that employees saved as much as $6 million in gasoline costs. Altogether, the initiative will cut the state's greenhouse-gas emissions by more than 12,000 metric tons a year. And perhaps not surprisingly, 82% of state workers say they want to keep the new schedule. "It's beneficial for the environment and beneficial for workers," says Lori Wadsworth, a professor at Brigham Young University who helped survey state employees. "People loved it." Those who didn't tended to have young children and difficulty finding extended day care.
Since they love progress the usual 45 hours of work that used to be done in 40 now can be done in 32.
ReplyDeleteExecellent.