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4 Days of Work Makes the Gas Use Go Down

Posted: October 3rd, 2008
By: Christie LaBarca
Category: Law Firms, The News Beat

4 Days of Work Makes the Gas Use Go Down
With the current economic situation facing the country and high gas prices, many people are being forced to make adjustments in their regular activities. Those who feel a heavy responsibility of alleviating the hardships resulted from current economic conditions are those who are at managerial level positions.   Above the Law reports how one law firm will be allowing their employees to take off an extra day during the week in order to ease their weekly gas expense. Balch & Bingham, a law firm from Atlanta, says their employees have the choice of taking off Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday. The employees, however, will instead be required to work ten hour days.

Above the Law seems to think this is of no real benefit to the employees of the firm. They don't think a ten hour work day will lighten stress of the employees, and instead propose that employees should receive a gas credit or a half-day of work. Nevertheless, being that many of the employees live in the suburbs outside of Atlanta and drive to work, this can be a good thing. Employees will definitely spend less money on gas and that is the basic objective here. Though it may or may not reduce their stress concerning their job, they may feel a lesser amount of stress pertaining to how much their commute costs them. If the employees of the firm have the option of whether they want to do the four, ten hour days, this should be a successful arrangement.

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