Oakland Counties 4/40 program, which is a 4-day/40-hour work week, is gaining steam, L. Brooks Patterson says.
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Joining Patterson at the news conference was Wixom City Manager
Mike Dornan whose employees recently went on the four-day, 4-hour work
week. Dornan is pleased with how the program is working out.
"Our motivations were purely selfish. We spent more than a year
studying the impact of various cost-savings programs, and found the
compressed workweek initiative to be a sound move toward saving our
citizens and employees money," said Dornan. "All traditions were new
at one time. It took a lot of courage to make this move, and people
were skeptical about the results - but during these challenging
economic times, we're all forced to do things differently. Now that
we're a month into our pilot program, we're seeing that the city is
saving money, while service is actually improved by the expansion of
our operating hours."
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