Four Day Work Week

Alabama Prattville Prattville will switch to a four-day work week for some of its city employees to help them conserve $4-a-gallon gasoline.
by The Associated Press
Published: Mon, June 16, 2008 - 11:17 am CST
PRATTVILLE, Ala. (AP) - Prattville will switch to a four-day
work week until Aug. 4 for some of its employees to help them
conserve $4-a-gallon gasoline.
Starting June 23, they will work Monday through Thursday, 7 a.m.
until 6 p.m. The new schedule continues through Aug. 4.
One hundred of the city's 400 employees will make the switch. It
won't affect police, fire, sanitation, wastewater, leisure services
or the mayor's office.
One employee, Ryan Pacharka, drives from Birmingham to
Prattville and back every day. One less trip will add up for him.
He says, "It will definitely help with the pocketbook."
Mayor Jim Byard says it also will save the city on energy costs
because, he says, "The air conditioner won't run as much and
lights will be off."

(Copyright 2008 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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karo bob Says:
Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 6:15 am

let them work there four ten days. it take four men to fix a pot hole. one truck driver,one man to move the tarp covering the asphalt,one to shovel the stuff and one under a shade tree on the cell phone. it’s all in a days work.

barefootangel
barefootangel Says:
Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 5:04 pm

I lived and worked in VA (many years ago), four work days and a three day weekend every week.  It was great for me and children.

motherof3 Says:
Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 7:40 pm

I heard of this alot in bigger companies, esp mills. Says alot of the company.

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