Washing Up A Relaxation?

Northern Advocate, 14 June 1947, Page 8

Washing Up A Relaxation?

“The top executive who used to spend his evenings reading report or business journals, now finds that he is washing the dishes. This... is not conductive to the highest degree of managerial .efficiency and enterprise." This extract from the Institute of Public Affairs Review sent the Melbourne Herald 'in quest of opinions from business leaders and this is what they said:— Managing director of a manufacturing firm:—“l'm sure washing up doesn't interfere with my efficiency. I've been called on to do every job about the house in my time —and if fellow executives come to dinner, they lend a hand with the washing up afterwards, too. “Why not a bit of lime and motion study in Hie kitchen. ? . There's an opportunity for tired fellows to cut the job down by half.' 7 A secretary:— “Doesn't it depend on a man's attitude to the job? If he's fond of his wife, and she can't get domestic help, ho ought to enjoy helping her. It tired husbands were to buy washing machines and driers for their wives, they'd probably cut the work in half and have much more amiable wives when it was all over. A managing director of a firm of engineers:—"I help with the washing up. Every night too" “A woman organiser:—“I think a lot of men regard washing up as a relaxation. Certainly, most of the men I know regard it as a fair thing to help their wives if domestic help is unobtainable. Most men nowadays are students of sinkology, and it does them good to leave the office behind when they come home,"