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Shanks, Katherine – Wilson Library Bulletin, 1984
Explores three forms of alternative work schedules that research has shown improve job performance and decrease absenteeism: flextime (starting and stopping times vary within limits); permanent part-time employment (regular employment carried out during shorter working hours); and job sharing (two or more part-time employees share one full-time…
Descriptors: Flexible Working Hours, Job Satisfaction, Job Sharing, Labor Force
Download full textSachs, Sharon – 1994
More than 58 percent of all women working in the U.S. labor force, many of them sole supports of their families, and 67 percent of women with children under age 18 are working. Therefore, more flexible work options are being made to allow a balance of work and family. Increasingly available options include work at home, compressed workweeks,…
Descriptors: Adults, Employed Parents, Employed Women, Employment Practices
Staines, Graham L. – 1989
Flexible work schedules offer the promise of a low-cost option for helping people manage work and family responsibilities. Alternative work schedules include part-time work, job sharing, work sharing, shiftwork, compressed work week, flexitime, and flexiplace. Flexitime is the most prevalent full-time flexible schedule and is second in prevalence…
Descriptors: Adults, Employed Parents, Employer Attitudes, Employer Employee Relationship
