{"id":6407,"date":"2008-05-30T16:27:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-30T16:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/workers_shifting_to_4_day_week_to_save_gasoline\/"},"modified":"2008-05-30T16:27:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-30T16:27:00","slug":"workers_shifting_to_4_day_week_to_save_gasoline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=6407","title":{"rendered":"Workers shifting to 4-day week to save gasoline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Ohio&#8217;s Kent State University offered custodial staff the option of working four days a week instead of five to cut commuting costs, most jumped at the chance, part of a U.S. trend aimed at combating soaring gasoline prices.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We offered it to 94 employees and 78 have taken us up on it,&#8221; said university spokesman Scott Rainone.<\/p>\n<p>The reason is simple: rising gas prices and a desire to retain good workers. And while so far only the university&#8217;s custodians are eligible, Rainone hopes the option will be offered to all departments &#8212; including his own.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/topNews\/idUSN2937323620080529?feedType=RSS&#038;feedName=topNews&#038;rpc=22&#038;sp=true\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Ohio&#8217;s Kent State University offered custodial staff the option of working four days a week instead of five to cut commuting costs, most jumped at the chance, part of a U.S. trend aimed at combating soaring gasoline prices. &#8220;We<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=6407\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,149,140],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-economy","category-energy-natural-resources"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}