Recovery from Work and the Productivity of Working Hours

Datos Bibliográficos

ID9723795
AutoresJohn Pencavel (Stanford University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2016
Volumen83
Número332
Páginas545-563
Fecha de publicación2016-10-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEconomica (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0013-0427 • E-ISSN: 1468-0335
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/ecca.12206
OpenAlexW2508496527
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas7
Referencias citadas11

Observations on munitions workers are organized to examine the relationship between their output each week, their working hours and days each week, and their working hours and days in adjacent weeks. The hypothesis is that workers need to recover from work, and a long working week results in greater fatigue and stress, and yet provides insufficient time for recuperation before the next week's work opens. Workers require time off the job to restore their physical, mental and emotional capacities, and if a long working week provides inadequate time to repair, then their subsequent work performance suffers

Demographic economics · Economic growth · Economics · Labour economics · Mental fatigue · Operations management · Productivity · Work (physics) · Work hours · Work time · Working hours · Working time · Applied Psychology · Engineering · Psychology · Sleep and Work-Related Fatigue