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(N.Z.P. A. -Reuter— Copyright) GLASGOW, June 28. A company which abolished fixed tea breaks, and introduced a system under which employees could take tea breaks whenever they wished is saving 25,000 man-hours a year at a factory employing just over 600 men, an industrial expert said today. Professor T. T. Paterson, who is head of the department of industrial administration at the University of Strathclyde, will report on the factory tomorrow in Glasgow at
a conference on “Improving the industrial en-
vironment” In the past, 600 dayworkers at the plant had a 10-mlnute canteen break in the morning. Now the employee can take a tea break whenever he wishes. He takes a break when his work allows him.
“The firm hands responsibility for the tea break to the man himself. The result has been that the men did not take advantage of it, in the sense of spending too much time smoking,” Professor Paterson said.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31098, 29 June 1966, Page 17
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157Optional Breaks Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31098, 29 June 1966, Page 17
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