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...part of its celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Revolution last year, the Soviet government announced that Russian workers would begin working a five-day week. They would still work the same 41 hours they had been working, but would compress them into five instead of six days and take two days off. The plan had one obvious advantage: it meant that Russia's work force of 110 million could have an extra day of leisure without stunting production...
...five-day week has become as much a curse as a blessing...
Used to pacing production to months that had only four or five days off, industry has tended to adopt a new creak-and-crash cycle under the five-day week, holding to the old pace at the first part of a month, then trying desperately to catch up to quotas toward the end. Pravda cited a Tomsk factory that now turns out some 60 fans a day during the first week of the month, then heats up to 200 or more in the last - with a corresponding drop in quality. In the last-minute dither to meet quotas, workers...
...just as well. A seven-man committee of industry leaders reported that since shortened hours went into effect Jan. 22, there has been a "substantial" reduction in the number of delivery failures among brokers. Such "fails" generally occur because brokers are unable to obtain stock certificates within the five-day period (raised last month from four days) allotted for payment and delivery after every securities transaction. The problem-still far from solved-snowballs, and as a result, customers sometimes wait weeks for the stock certificates, order confirmations, account statements and dividend checks that they once got in days...
Voting has also been streamlined to eliminate a senatorial courtesy favoring members absent from Washington by postponing roll calls until their return. Henceforth, votes will be scheduled in their proper order during the regular five-day week...