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Show A-29 e Park Record Tues/Wed/Thurs/Fri, July 3-6, 2007 Employees prefer long days dard schedule. Those with set about 2,600 employees in child- care schedules may find it Aurora, near Denver, working its Intelligence and difficult to arrange later pickups. for It also makes for longer work- Information Systems business, days Mondays through employees have the option of a By KELLY YAMAN OUCHI Thursdays, but "a lot of us were 9/80 workweek. About 45 perMediaNews Group wire service working nine-or-10-hour days cent of employees in Aurora are At the end of every other before they implemented this on the schedule. • United Launch Alliance, a week, Lockheed Martin systems anyhow," Schulz said. Lockheed Martin Space rocket joint venture of Lockheed engineer Cindy Schulz is espeSystems started using the 9/80 Martin and Boeing that started cially thankful it's Friday. Instead of sitting in the office workweek about seven years last December, recently adopted the 9/80 workweek. all day, she's out running person- ago. The schedule doesn't work The company was introduced al errands, getting an early start on a weekend trip to the moun-' to the idea by employees asking for everybody. At Starsys, areas such as suptains or otherwise taking a day for it and government customers that had it, according to Rich ply-chain management need to off. Its a perk called a 9/80 work- Kludt, vice president of human work a more standard schedule week that's standard at resources for Lockheed Martin to handle materials coming in, Tibbitts said. Lockheed Martin Space Space Systems. But for employees on the The government sector is one Systems, which has its headquarters in Colorado's Waterton of the largest users of the 9/80 9/80 schedule, "it's been someCanyon and employs about 3,800 workweek, according to the thing that they've said really in the Denver area. Employees Society for Human Resource changes their lives," he said. Starsys lead design engineer get every other Friday off, work- Management. At Lockheed Martin Space Brian Harrington, for example, ing 80 hours over nine days in a Systems, employees can opt out tells his friends, "We all know two-week period. Aerospace executives say of an alternate work schedule, how we look forward to those weekends. (At this alternate work schedule subject to their managers' agree- three-day helps in recruiting and retention, ment, but about 75 percent of Starsys,) it happens every other particularly when competition employees are on the 9/80 sched- week." ule. Tibbitts thinks Starsys may for the best employees is fierce. lose some productivity "In the aerobecause of the schedule. space industry, there's a shortage of You can go run errands and get stuff when people need to work J J talent," said Scott extra-long hours to get Tibbitts, co-founder done when the kids are in school that things done, -that's a nttie of Louisville. Colo.,. -/ , I w more challenging" with a based aerospace "We're certainly company Starsys, you cant necessarily get done on the 9/so schedule, he said. getting our 40-hour-plus which also has a 9/80 workweek," he said. But workweek. "We all weekends when things are closed." - Cindy Schulz "do you get as many hours have the same probof people? I don't lem: How do we keep Lockheed Martin engineer out think you do." and retain the very ^ ^ Lisa Severy, director best people? There's ^ ^ * i ^ ^ ^ of career services at the a desire to put benefits in place that (make) people "It's very popular," Kludt University of Colorado at say, "That's a reason to go work said. "Employee morale is hard Boulder, said benefits and for that company," and the 9/80 to measure, but you can see it work/life balance and flexibility are "moving up the list in terms sort of stands out." and you can feel it." For union-represented of what's important to this genFor Schulz and most colleagues, Monday through employees, Lockheed negotiated eration of students and their Thursday are nine-hour days and for the 9/80 schedule with labor. employment situation." A Friday off "tends to make the working Friday is an eight"We heard from our union hour day. leadership in the various sites people work a little more effiThat can make a stressful job, that it was somehow a detriment ciently during the week," said combined with a busy personal to the employees' eligibility, if Laura Stack, a professional life, more bearable. Schulz, 38, you will, for overtime," Kludt speaker who specializes in productivity. has two sons, ages 6 and 8. and said. L likes to handle tasks like going But the company presented But some employees may not to the bank or the doctor on her its view on the aim to give more like the schedule because they Fridays off. flexibility to employees. have to get tasks "crammed into When employers consider an the other days," she said. "You can go run errands and work schedule, get stuff done when the kids are alternate Laureen Vartanian, an adminin school that you can't necessar- International Association of istrative assistant for the United and Aerospace Launch Alliance who is new to ily get done on the weekends Machinists Frank the 9/80 workweek, said she when things are closed or you've Workers spokesman Larkin said, it's important to the plans to use some of her Fridays got other obligations," she said. Some drawbacks of the sys- union that members would not to volunteer or treat it like a tem are that it often takes more be "forced off of a traditional "mini-vacation." coordination to work and com- work schedule" to work the "And during ski season," she municate with people outside alternate schedule. said, "can you imagine? It's the company who are on a stanAt Raytheon, which has going to be great." 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