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OP On NPR this morning, I again heard this phrase: Fewer employees are working fewer hours...
This almost always makes my mind do a doubletake. Do they mean the average hours for all employees are dropping (could indicate less productivity), or that a decreasing number of employees are working part time (could indicate more productivity)?
Any ideas (not on this sentence per se, but on the use of fewer...fewer)?
Brandon
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