- Author
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Thomas, H. R.
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Raynar, K. A.
- Title
- Effects of Scheduled Overtime on Labor Productivity: A Quantitative Analysis.
- Coporate
- Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park
- Report
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Source Document 98
August 1994
64 p.
- Keywords
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construction
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quantitative analysis
- Abstract
- Scheduled overtime has been a controversial subject since the mid-1960s. In the early 1970s, the Business Roundtable (BRT) published a report on the effects of scheduled overtime. The BRT report added to the controversy. The purpose of this report is to present the quantitative results of a study into the effects on labor productivity of scheduled overtime. This report is the most comprehensive study of overtime since the BRT report. It is based on 121 weeks of data from four active industrial construction projects. Major contract disputes were not involved in any project, and the labor environment was good. Both union and merit shop labor forces were included in the study. This report is a companion report to an earlier Construction Industry Institute report that surveyed the literature on scheduled overtime.