In the Age of the Costly Commute

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If gasoline prices keep getting higher, will this have an impact on how workers and employers structure the workweek? A survey of corporate human-resource executives by Challenger, Gray & Christmas detects signs of such a shift.

Fifty-seven percent of the human-resource people said their companies are offering “some type of program designed to alleviate increased commuting costs.” The most common of these (cited by 23 percent) is “a condensed workweek, which typically consists of four 10-hour days.”

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