The workforce reductions could be unitized,

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

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

Let me write that down on the side here.

They are demanding shorter working hours.

Right across much of the world

Those weren't the easiest of days

Wasteful abusive and focused on labor productivity.

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

Laborers normally work 8 hours per day.

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

Workers have all productive processes, i.e. they plan, execute and contribute.

The workers union called off their 24 hour strike today.

But now it's turned around.

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

So let's say Dustin charges, so the function, I'll call it d for Dustin.

A little background when my grade five was learning about child rights, they were made to roll incense sticks, agarbattis, for eight hours to experience what it means to be a child laborer.

Other than a massive bill for overtime.

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

For example, love might not be a scarce resource. You might have an infinite amount of love.

The workers were laid off for three weeks.

The laborer was layed off for 3 weeks.

The laborers were layed off for 3 weeks.

Nevertheless, there are ways to fix them without depending on public finance.

Avoid heavy labor It will be better in two weeks.

I was thinking maybe you should spend a little less time

The other point is that it is hard.

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

They guaranteed regular employment to their workers.

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.

To cope with this problem, we had better quit working long hours, right?

A machine is anything that reduces human effort

And he puts an exclamation mark, OK? This is an awful lot of work.

And I think it's the sort of technology that's gone wrong.

I would like to show you how different the outcomes would be.

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

Back in 1800, you'd have had to work six hours to earn a candle that could burn for an hour.

What that tells us, is that the price of

Most of them don't want to go back to the countryside, but they don't have the sense of belonging.

The tighter the government financing becomes, the more the citizens are burdened by increasing taxes.

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.

Paid work in Germany in the year 2001

Now, Al Dunlap would be brought in to save failing companies, he'd close down 30 percent of the workforce.

When I pay for something I am making a trade.

I see.