Work Reduction Quotes

My hope is that flexible working and varying shift patterns will give workers a taste for idling and that they will gradually demand greater reductions in the length of the working week.

… increased industrial efficiency makes it possible to procure the means of livelihood with less labor

A one-hour work-week...would minimize the damage that Congress can do.

But make not more business necessary than is so; and rather lessen than augment work for thyself.

Once you explore life outside of work, it becomes addictive. The less you work, the less you want to work. At first, the odd afternoon off seems like a fantastic luxury. Before long, you are opting for a four-day week. Then a four-day week becomes an intolerable demand on your time, so you find a way of moving to a three-day week.

The reduction of working hours is a decisive means of creating a sufficient number of jobs.

Yes I'm still working, but my life's no longer filled with it.

The strategy we need to pursue is one of recovering our time - to push back on our hours of work. We need to form a new alliance between feminist groups, labor unions, child advocates, progressive corporations, and the federal government insofar as it's willing to pursue a family-friendly agenda.

This is 1930, not 1898. We have not only arrived at a 44-hour week but in this machine age we are arriving at the time when all workers will soon be given a 40-hour week.

Many people want to scale back their working hours as they near the end of their careers, but not necessarily to give up work altogether.

We've discovered that the less we do, the more money we make.

Actors never retire, they just get less and less work.

I think I'll be working a lot less as I get older

I used to work all the time, and now if there is a wedding, there's a concert, I'm there.

The road to happiness and prosperity lies in an organized diminution of work.

I need more personal time and, given my extensive work in health care, I want to pursue that interest further.

I'd like to cut down on the work a little bit.

When you get to a certain age, the work begins to thin out.