{"id":2389,"date":"2025-01-23T07:00:09","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T12:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/?p=2389"},"modified":"2025-01-20T14:37:02","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T19:37:02","slug":"cant-afford-to-give-raises-try-shortening-the-work-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/cant-afford-to-give-raises-try-shortening-the-work-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Can&#8217;t Afford to Give Raises? Try Shortening the Work Week!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington\u2019s San Juan County faced a tight budget and union-represented employees demanding their first raise since the pandemic.\u00a0 The county\u2019s solution? Leave the pay scale the same but reduce working time from five days a week to four days.\u00a0 And the result was such a win-win for everyone that other governments are taking notice.<\/p>\n<p><strong>San Juan County sees benefits from shortened work week<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/salish-current.org\/2024\/12\/04\/san-juan-county-sees-benefits-from-shortened-work-week\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/salish-current.org\/2024\/12\/04\/san-juan-county-sees-benefits-from-shortened-work-week<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Related Reading<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><script src=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/widgets.js\" data-type=\"book\" data-affiliate-id=\"102171\" data-sku=\"9781459751316\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington\u2019s San Juan County faced a tight budget and union-represented employees demanding their first raise since the pandemic.\u00a0 The county\u2019s solution? Leave the pay scale the same but reduce working time from five days a week to four days.\u00a0 And the result was such a win-win for everyone that other governments are taking notice. San&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/cant-afford-to-give-raises-try-shortening-the-work-week\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Can&#8217;t Afford to Give Raises? Try Shortening the Work Week!&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,53,55,41,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-lifestyle","category-global","category-health","category-news","category-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2389"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2401,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2389\/revisions\/2401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}