Orkney men work longest hours

The Scotsman;  December 20, 2005 ;   John Ross;   474 words ...MEN in Orkney work the longest hours in Britain, seven hours a week more than their counterparts in Edinburgh and over eight hours more than Londoners. The figures are revealed in a new survey by the GMB union which found full-time workers in Orkney...

American workers are laboring longer hours

Tribune-Review/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review;  January 2, 2008 ;   Joe Napsha;   773 words ...Photocopier technician Timothy Hutson of West Mifflin recalls working extra hours for a previous employer, sometimes being on call 24 hours a day and once logging more than 80 hours in a week. "It was a grind. It causes you to lose out on too much" time...

Workaholics beware: long hours may not pay.; the most productive workers...

U.S. News & World Report;  April 7, 1986 ;   Brophy, Beth;   772 words ...Workaholics beware: Long hours may not pay Extended work has never been...belies the notion that laboring long hours is essenstial to a successful career...willing to put in significantly more hours to get ahead are more likely to earn...

U.S. expected to cut trucker hours Effects of plan on business, safety at...

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  August 7, 1999 ;   JOE MANNING, The Associated Press and Lee Hawkins Jr. of the Journal Sentinel staff contributed to this report;   767 words ......said new federal limits on the number of hours truckers may drive each day would unfairly...require drivers to be off duty at least 14 hours in a 24-hour period, according to trucking...it," Baldwin said. "I don't know that 14 hours is reasonable, but we need something...

The effects of hours of work on health: a meta-analytic review.

Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology;  December 1, 1997 ;   Sparks, Kate Cooper, Cary Fried, Yitzhak Shirom, Arie;   787 words ......1965) suggested over 30 years ago that `hours of work have long been recognized as having...investigating the relationship between work hours and health, produced findings which raised concern about the impact of long work hours on an individual's well-being. Buell &...

Scots stressed out by the 70-hour working week; Longest hours in the UK...

The Daily Mail (London, England);  December 6, 2005 ;     547 words ......LIVINGSTONE SCOTS face the longest working hours in the UK. More than one in five of us spends upwards of 70 hours a week working - way above the UK average...Scottish business bosses work more than 50 hours each week, with the average professional...

A very personal possession: Eamon Duffy tells how a careful study of...

History Today;  November 1, 2006 ;   Duffy, Eamon;   787 words ...THE BOOK OF HOURS is one of the most glamorous artefacts...dimmer'), almost 800 manuscript Books of Hours made for use in England are scattered in...thousands. To begin with, at least, any Book of Hours cost a fortune, and they were owned only...

"The paper you read and where you live determine how many hours you work"

Management Services;  December 1, 2002 ;   Anonymous;   272 words ......newspapers they read, determines how many hours staff are prepared to work, reveals the...Scotland and Wales set out to find out how the hours that people work are affected by factors...rest of the UK, but they then work longer hours than anybody else, when they get there...

Women work longer as men cut their own hours.

The Daily Mail (London, England);  January 2, 2004 ;     727 words ......MATTHEW HICKLEY WOMEN are working longer hours while men are putting in less time for...employees found that women now work almost 34 hours a week on average - half a day longer than the figure of 30.4 hours five years ago. According to the Chartered...

Supermum! While most British workers do a 43-hour week, mothers put in 100...

The Daily Mail (London, England);  May 13, 2005 ;     510 words ......harder than anyone else, putting in 100 hours a week in cleaning, childcare, the school...researchers. This is more than double the 43.6 hours a week of the average British worker, which...figure of its kind in Europe. The long hours mean that many women find they have no...

NURSES ON LONG HOURS

Roanoke Times & World News;  May 15, 2005 ;   Jeff Sturgeon jeff.sturgeon@roanoke.com 981-3251;   787 words ...It was 8:30 p.m. on a Saturday, 12 hours after nurse Kim Merrill of Christiansburg...that March weekend, without sleep, for 27 hours. While Merrill presents an extreme example...concerned that some nurses are working too many hours - for their own good and for that of patients...

Stuck in Seattle Traffic? You'll Have a Lot of Company -- Report shows...

Yakima Herald-Republic;  May 8, 2001 ;   JONATHAN D. SALANT ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER;   787 words ......Drivers in Los Angeles spend an average of 56 hours a year - more than a work week - stuck...In Seattle and Atlanta, the figure is 53 hours, says a report documenting America's nagging...were delayed in traffic an average of 53 hours per person yearly, up from 19 hours in...

Teamsters, Safety Groups Urge Court to Overturn Hours of Service...

PR Newswire;  December 5, 2006 ;     452 words ...Rules Require More Hours Behind Wheel with Less Rest WASHINGTON...of the U.S. Court of Appeals challenging Hours of Service (HOS) regulations that place...President. They force drivers to work more hours with less rest over the course of a given...

Study says traffic on upswing; Congestion: Rush hour has grown to six...

Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque);  May 8, 2001 ;   ASSOCIATED PRESS;   752 words ......Drivers in Los Angeles spend an average of 56 hours a year - more than a work week - stuck in traffic. In Atlanta, the figure is 53 hours, double that of just seven years ago, says...found that the average person spent 36 hours a year sitting in traffic in 1999, up from...

Fed: Long working hours wrecking familiy relationships, survey

AAP General News (Australia);  September 4, 2001 ;     472 words ......General News (Australia) 09-04-2001 Fed: Long working hours wrecking familiy relationships, survey By Lisa Walker...the ACTU. An expectation for employees to work long hours - more than 48 hours a week - was "an entrenched and widespread experience...