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By Josh Hart Jun 2, 2008

Can you qualify for a four-day work week? According to a report from the Wall Street Journal a handful of small towns and community colleges are switching to four-day workweeks in an effort to help employees cope with the rising gasoline prices, and could soon be joined by some larger local governments.

Gas Prices and the Four-Day Work Week: Can You Qualify?

It makes sense for weary motorists, especially those that have to drive many miles to their workplace. Doing the math, some are spending over $30 a day just to drive back and forth to work. Some governments are proposing for their employees a four-day, 10-hour workweek that would remain in place for "the foreseeable" future.

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According to the Journal report "Michigan's Oakland County and New York’s Suffolk County are both considering putting public employees on four-day workweeks. In Oklahoma, a resolution has been introduced in the state house of representatives recommending all state and local public employers move to a shortened week to provide relief from the cost of commuting."

Many private employees are poised to use these new proposals to push their employers to allow them the four-day work week as well. And if it is possible it seems logical, at least for the workers that drive many miles to their jib each day. A $30 a week savings in gas would deliver over a $1500 savings each year on gasoline costs alone.

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