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res now abound with manuals describing how to manage time and cope with stress 3 There are several reasons for lost leisure. Since 1970, panies have responded to improvements in the business climate by having employees work overtime rather than by hiring extra personnel, says economist Juliet B. Schor of Harvard University. Indeed, the current economic recovery has gained a certain amount of notoriety for its 39。jobless39。 nature: increased production has been almost entirely decoupled from employment. Some firms are even down sizing as their profits climb. 39。All things being equal, we39。d be better off spreading around the work,39。 observes labour economist Ronald G. Ehrenberg of Cornell University. 4 Yet a host of factors pushes employers to hire fewer workers for more hours and, at the same time, pels workers to spend more time on the job. Most of those incentives involve what Enrenberg calls the structure of pensation: quirks in the way salaries and benefits are anized that make it more profit able to ask 40 employees to labour an extra hour each than to hire one more worker to do the same 40hour job. 中國最大的管理資源中心 (大量免費資源共享 ) 第 3 頁 共 9 頁 5 Professional and managerial employees supply the most obvious lesson along these lines. Once people are on salary, their cost to a firm i