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Venezuela To Public Workers: Stay At Home

April, 27, 2016
April, 27, 2016 Ultimas Noticias

Venezuelan public workers woke up Wednesday to newspaper headlines that told them to stay home. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro announced in a televised address Tuesday that the government is slashing additional working hours for the country’s 2.8 million public workers in a bid to save energy, reducing the working week from four to two days. […]

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School Wake-Up Call: The Case For Letting Students Sleep Later

School is not the place to sleep
School is not the place to sleep Sampsyo

A new proposal in Germany to move to a later school starting time is backed by many scientists, even if it runs against entrenched social norms that rising early is virtuous.

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What Do They Call A Man Who Works Half-Time? Half A Man, Of Course

German men want more work-life balance
German men want more work-life balance Karlsberg UrPils

MUNICH – When is a man a man? The business world has an answer to that: when he works full-time and is focused on his career advancement. To explore this a little further, we met up at a café in downtown Munich with Norbert Meier (not his real name) who by that definition is only […]

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