kweek

How To Use kweek In A Sentence

• The workweek was reduced to three days, then two days, then one day. THE BRONZE HORSEMAN
• The Unemployment stats will not turn around inside a time-frame of the current administration, as rehires will be defrayed by elimination of Underemployment -- this means an additional five hours per average workweek, Workweek stats overreport actual hours worked: claiming in excess of 43 hours, when there is a actual Workweek of only about 37 hours. Meltzer on the Labor Market, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
• As part of a plan by the new Democratic majority to create the impression of frenzied hard work, the House has also boosted its workweek from a bankerly three days to five, and the Senate has trimmed its other spring break — two weeks in April — by half. Calendar
• Trigger Schafer, who had begun his career as an enlisted metalsmith working on CH-46s, bunked during the workweek in a 40-foot boat he docked at Solomons Island, a waterfront village at the confluence of the Patuxent River and Chesapeake Bay. The Dream Machine
• Remaining city workers in general-fund departments will be reduced to a 32-hour workweek, which is in effect a 20 percent pay cut. Undefined
• In 1967 average real (inflation-adjusted) income for the middle class (families with incomes between the fortieth and sixtieth percentiles of the income distribution) was about $43,000; in 2007 it was more than $61,000.8 This increase does not include the increased generosity of nonwage and nonsalary benefits such as health care, pensions, flexible workweeks, more family leave, more vacation, and holidays. RETURN TO PROSPERITY
• Union negotiators had been seeking a guaranteed 40-hour workweek and job assignments based on seniority.
• As bad as this is, there is enough misery to go around, as only later in the article we learn that even people who have jobs are feeling the pinch, and "The average work week in March dropped to 33.2 hours" which is down 17\% from the standard 40-hour workweek, which is, in case you were wondering, "a new record low". Asia Times Online
• Focus on getting through the first workweek, then the weekend, and only then the next five workdays.
• He says that the fun of using his LEGO time tracker is a big advantage—we do use systems we enjoy using—but that co-workers coming to your place and disassembling your workweek is the one disadvantage. Track Your Time with LEGO Bricks | Lifehacker Australia