FATIGUE IN FARM WORK
Professor G. Lehmann, Director of the Max-Planck Institute. Dortmund, speaking on farm work study at the Netherlands Conference of the European Productivity Agency recently, pointed out that the frequent change of activities in farm work causes a wider fluctuation of the energy expended on different working dav? than in industrial work. Demand may. on single days, increase by 30 per cent.— but this abnormal expenditure may be compensated by a corresponding fall on other days. He considered the question of rest pauses a vital one in ensuring efficiency in production. Many workers interrupt their . work ostensibly to make technical adjustments which are not necessary. Such camouflaged rest pauses represent an actual loss of time, while genuine rest pauses produce, in the long run, a gain of time.
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Press, Volume XCIV, Issue 28158, 22 December 1956, Page 9
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