In each five-day week, two days allow equal time for all seven classes.

The five-day week also is suffering from an image problem.

When converted to a conventional five-day, 40-hour week, this would mean 13 weeks off each year.

"But the reality is that our employees work a five-day, 45-hour week."

But a five-day week has a benefit to consumer spending.

Then a parts shortage forced him to cut back to five-day weeks in December.

The five additional national holidays in the earlier five-day week remained and did not fall on the state rest day.

"They saw the five-day week as the next step," he said.

His total hours each month are about the same as they were in an eight-hour five-day week.

With technological advances, the five-day week became standard a very long time ago.