Right across much of the world

Those weren't the easiest of days

Other than a massive bill for overtime.

I worked on a yearly contract.

The workman, as a rule, works eight hours a day.

Laborers normally work 8 hours per day.

The workman, as a rule, works eight hours a day.

I'm one of the most active volunteer translators at TED.

Let me write that down on the side here.

Wasteful abusive and focused on labor productivity.

Some of the gains could be what would make them happy?

The function of the machine is to save work.

The workers were laid off for three weeks.

The laborer was layed off for 3 weeks.

The laborers were layed off for 3 weeks.

it's something that I couldn't do without.

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And all of this has fueled an increase, very smooth and predictable, of productivity.

You get what you're contracted for, like everybody else.

The other point is that it is hard.

North America being a notable exception working hours have been coming down.

They are demanding shorter working hours.

But now it's turned around.

Saddled in the performing arts as we are, by antiquated union agreements that inhibit and often prohibit mechanical reproduction and streaming,

I pursued professional training and completed a six month internship.

Today, the average Korean works a thousand hours more a year than the average German a thousand.

The deal.

The workers union called off their 24 hour strike today.

Argument continues about the White collar exemption that exempts specific white collar workers from the 8 hours in 1 day, 40 hours a week, working hours fixed by the Labour Standards Act.

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This agreement holds good for a year.

Instead of laying off these workers, why don't we just cut their hours?

Nike was one of the early ones.

A company I bought into prior to going to work at Witter.

Paid work in Germany in the year 2001

And if you go beyond sort of the country level, down at the micro company level, more and more companies now are realizing that they need to allow their staff either to work fewer hours or just to unplug to take a lunch break, or to go sit in a quiet room, to switch off their Blackberrys and laptops you at the back mobile phones, during the work day or on the weekend, so that they have time to recharge and for the brain to slide into that kind of creative mode of thought.

Surpassing labour intensive, capital intensive, the age has shifted greatly to knowledge intensive.

Now, there are all kinds of things that we architects need to learn how to do,

What deal?

His contract runs for one more year.

which means if you sign a deal with anybody else, we always want a better deal.

There are no pacts between lions and men.

The totality of this project involves tens of thousands of hours of human labor 99 percent of it done by women.

I remembered the story of a conceited fellow, who, in fine clothes, was wont to

The details of the agreement are set forth in the contract.