workweek
noun
work·week
ˈwərk-ˌwēk 
: the hours or days of work in a calendar week
40-hour workweek
a 5-day workweek
a shortened workweek
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Avoid Placing Value On Outdated Metrics Time cards, workweeks and eight-hour days grew out of a manufacturing model developed over 100 years ago.
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Expert Panel®, Forbes, 6 Nov. 2024
As their boys have gotten older, the family has relocated to the city for the school and workweek, escaping to the country on weekends.
—David Foxley, Architectural Digest, 14 Oct. 2024
There is hope that the wider rollout of a four-day workweek could help reduce the negative business effects of wellbeing issues like rising burnout, which leads to sick leave.
—Ryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 5 Nov. 2024
But many companies that remain committed to a four-day workweek are nixing the extra day entirely, not tacking its hours onto the other four.
—Jane Thier, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2024
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Expert Panel®, Forbes, 6 Nov. 2024
As their boys have gotten older, the family has relocated to the city for the school and workweek, escaping to the country on weekends.
—David Foxley, Architectural Digest, 14 Oct. 2024
There is hope that the wider rollout of a four-day workweek could help reduce the negative business effects of wellbeing issues like rising burnout, which leads to sick leave.
—Ryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 5 Nov. 2024
But many companies that remain committed to a four-day workweek are nixing the extra day entirely, not tacking its hours onto the other four.
—Jane Thier, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2024
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workweek
noun
work·week
ˈwərk-ˌwēk
: the hours or days of work in a calendar week
a 40-hour workweek
a 5-day workweek
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