Late last fall Business Week reported that workers in the Volkswagen factories in Germany will now be working a 33 hour work week.
Volkswagen is like a state unto itself, where the laws of economics don’t apply. In Volkswagen land, otherwise known as Wolfsburg, Germany, a new labor agreement signed Oct. 6 by management and unions calls for a flexible workweek ranging from 25 to 33 hours, instead of the current 28.8 — a four-day regime VW inaugurated in 1994.Gail Edmondson
Business Week
Most of us would give our eye teeth to work a 33 hour work week. Can you believe that this action by Volkswagen is actually increasing the work week, up from the 28.8 hours that most factory workers have been working since a 1994 policy that adopted that even shorter work week?
Wow.
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