4-Day Week Articles
Listed below are several articles that discuss the pros and/or cons of a 4-day week. Click on the links to view the articles.
From the Chronicle of Higher Education:
Longer Days and Shorter Weeks as Colleges Cope With Soaring Energy Costs
By KATHERINE MANGAN
(Money & Management )
…with a Monday-to-Thursday workweek, a move that is expected to save the college $35,000 a month. (Like other campuses with four-day weeks, it will keep campus security and other essential services on Fridays.) During the six-week pilot … http://chronicle.com/weekly/v54/i38/38a01602.htm
To Trim Energy Bills, Colleges Try 4-Day Summer Weeks …down, The Chronicle’s Katherine Mangan reports. The college will also try out a plan under which employees can work four 10-hour days a week, saving themselves one round trip to the campus. Meanwhile, Florida International University … http://chronicle.com/blogs/architecture/?id=2136
Do 4-Day Workweeks Bring Real Savings?
By SCOTT CARLSON
(Money & Management )
…Do 4-Day Workweeks Bring Real Savings? Article tools Folks at Texas Christian University should not look forward to getting Fridays off if an energy crisis once again grips the country. A story in the Daily Skiff, a … http://chronicle.com/weekly/v55/i23/23a02902.htm
Other Articles:
“Workers at community colleges OK 4-day week: Officials hope move will cut costs over the summer.” Ventura County Star (Ventura, CA) (Feb 4, 2009): NA. General OneFile. Gale. MSU _ Northern Library. 11 Feb. 2009 http://find.galegroup.com/ips/infomark.do?contentSet=IAC-Documents&docType=IAC&type=retrieve&tabID=T004&prodId=IPS&docId=CJ193088319&userGroupName=mtlib_1_989&version=1.0&searchType=AdvancedSearchForm&source=gale
“4-day work weeks have benefits, problems.” Miami Herald (Miami, FL) (August 12, 2008): NA. General OneFile. Gale. MSU _ Northern Library. 12 Feb. 2009 http://find.galegroup.com/ips/infomark.do?contentSet=IAC-Documents&docType=IAC&type=retrieve&tabID=T004&prodId=IPS&docId=CJ182768112&userGroupName=mtlib_1_989&version=1.0&searchType=AdvancedSearchForm&source=gale
“CCC opts for 4-day work week in summer.” AZ Daily Sun (Flagstaff, AZ) (Jan 27, 2009): NA. General OneFile. Gale. MSU _ Northern Library. 12 Feb. 2009 http://find.galegroup.com/ips/infomark.do?contentSet=IAC-Documents&docType=IAC&type=retrieve&tabID=T004&prodId=IPS&docId=CJ192694868&userGroupName=mtlib_1_989&version=1.0&searchType=BasicSearchForm&source=gale
“EDITORIAL: Friday blues: State should be open five days.(Editorial).” Tulsa World (Tulsa, OK) (July 9, 2008): NA. General OneFile. Gale. MSU _ Northern Library. 12 Feb. 2009 http://find.galegroup.com/ips/infomark.do?contentSet=IAC-Documents&docType=IAC&type=retrieve&tabID=T004&prodId=IPS&docId=CJ181485849&userGroupName=mtlib_1_989&version=1.0&searchType=BasicSearchForm&source=gale
Ai Dam, Ai. The 4 Day School Week. Colorado Department of Education. 2006 http://newfirstsearch.oclc.org/WebZ/FSPage?pagetype=return_frameset:sessionid=fsapp7-57642-fr3t9wmz-dj2kik:entitypagenum=22:0:entityframedurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.eric.ed.gov%2Fcontentdelivery%2Fservlet%2FERICServlet%3Faccno%3DED497760:entityframedtitle=ERIC:entityframedtimeout=10:entityopenTitle=:entityopenAuthor=:entityopenNumber=:
Yarbrough, Rachel, and David Alan Gilman.. “From Five Days to Four.” Educational Leadership 64.2 (Oct. 2006): 80-85. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. 12 Feb. 2009 http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=22711500&site=ehost-live.
Compressed workweek: 4 and 10, do it again
The Philadelphia Inquirer, September 24, 2008 Wednesday, FEATURES MAGAZINE; Inq Daily Magazine; Pg. C01, 1309 words, By Lini S. Kadaba; Inquirer Staff Writer http://www.lexisnexis.com/us/lnacademic/results/docview/docview.do?docLinkInd=true&risb=21_T5772752151&format=GNBFI&sort=BOOLEAN&startDocNo=1&resultsUrlKey=29_T5772736390&cisb=22_T5772736389&treeMax=true&treeWidth=0&csi=247189&docNo=21
Work week cut to 4 days to save energy
The Boston Globe, November 2, 2008 Sunday, NORTHWEST; Pg. Reg1, 916 words, Julie Masis Globe Correspondent
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