This Focused Performance Weblog is a "business management blog" containing links and commentary related primarily to organizational effectiveness with a "Theory of Constraints" perspective. TOC is noted for its applications in Project Management and Multi-Project Management (Critical Chain) and Operations Management (Drum-Buffer-Rope), as well as in Marketing, Strategic Planning and Change Management (TOC Thinking Processes). If you are on an archive page, current postings are found here.
It was on this day in 1862 that the newly formed National Labor Union called upon Congress for the first time to establish the eight-hour work day...
It wasn't a labor leader who helped bring the eight-hour work day into the mainstream. It was Henry Ford...
The eight-hour workday didn't become federal law until 1933, when Congress enacted the National Industrial Recovery Act...
At the time those laws were passed, most sociologists predicted that Americans would work steadily fewer and fewer hours. But in fact, the opposite has happened. Today, more than 25 million Americans work more than 49 hours each week. And 11 million spend 60 hours or more at work each week. Americans also take fewer vacation days than employees in any other industrialized nation.
View Frank Patrick's profile
