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Summer's over, and the heat is on at work again.
Maybe you work just as many hours as you would like, like 52 percent of workers who were polled recently by Rutgers University. But one-third of the workers surveyed said they would like to spend less time on the job. That's inched up since a similar question was asked in 1999. Fourteen percent said they wish for more hours, often to bulk up their paychecks.
Salaried workers were almost twice as likely as hourly workers to say they want to cut back their schedule (42 percent vs. 22 percent), according to the Rutgers Work Trends survey of 1,000 people, including 587 in the labor force.
But not everyone welcomes a reduced schedule. A separate Bureau of Labor Statistics survey found that more than 5.4 million people in July worked part time because business was slow or because that was the only job they could find.
A third of workers in the Rutgers survey said their hours had changed in the past three months. They were almost evenly split between adding and subtracting hours. Rutgers called this a "startling amount of change" in a short time.
-- Vickie Elmer
