Compressed Work Weeks Compressed work weeks allow employees to shorten their work week by one or more days. Teleworking substitutes technology for travel. It can be done every day with a computer and other home-office items, or done occasionally with paper and pen. You can't see it, feel it, or taste it, but smog, or ground-level ozone, envelops the Atlanta region and it's hazardous in many ways. Air pollution can kill.
Studies attribute tens of thousands of premature deaths each year to air pollution.
Low-lying smog is linked to emergency room visits from people who suffer from lung problems. Other health effects include coughing, choking, nausea, chest pain, headaches, lung inflammation, breathing difficulty and eye irritation. Atlantans drive over 100 million miles every day, equal to a one-way trip to the sun. This emits 400 tons of pollution into the air. Per capita, metro Atlantans drive an average of 34 miles, farther than residents of any other metro area in the country.