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Globalization and Working Time: Working Hours and Flexibility in Germany
Politics & Society, 2009This article challenges popular wisdom that economic globalization uniformly increases working time in industrialized countries. International investment and trade, they argue, have uneven effects for workplace bargaining over standard hours and over work-time flexibility, such as use of temporary or fixed work contracts.
Burgoon, B., Raess, D.
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Flexible work in call centres: Working hours, work-life conflict & health
Applied Ergonomics, 2011Call-centre workers encounter major psychosocial pressures, including high work intensity and undesirable working hours. Little is known, however, about whether these pressures vary with employment status and how they affect work-life conflict and health.
Philip, Bohle +3 more
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Flexible working patterns using annualised hours
Work Study, 2003An increasing number of UK companies is adopting the practice of establishing employee working patterns under a system of annualised hours to offer greater flexibility. This paper describes the concept, examines the advantages of adopting such a system and gives a broad framework to support its effective introduction.
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Flexible work hours, ageing and well-being
International Congress Series, 2005Abstract The increasing diversification of working time patterns reflects broader societal reasons, involving social development, economic efficiency and individual preferences. The modern society is changing quite rapidly not only in terms of economic and productive strategies, but mainly in terms of social organisation and individual behaviours and
G. Costa, S. Sartori
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Flexible Working Hours‐Panacea or Placebo?
Management Decision, 1974At regular intervals over the past two decades, management has been presented with various attractively packaged techniques, offered as the panaceas to cure hitherto perennial managerial problems. Although these “cure‐alls” may differ greatly (cf. MBO and productivity bargaining) they tend to have a common characteristic, that is, they claim that ...
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Impact of flexible working hours on productivity.
Journal of Applied Psychology, 1977Using a sample of 246 clerical-level employees, the impact of a 4-mo flexible working hours experimental program on productivity for 5 production units within a large financial institution was investigated.
Virginia E. Schein +2 more
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Working Hours Flexibility and Timing of Retirement: Findings from Europe
Journal of Aging & Social Policy, 2018This study investigates how flexibility in working hours affects retirement timing. It tests the assumption that decreasing weekly working hours delays retirement and extends working life. Using data from four waves of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) and of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA), we analyze ...
Hess, Moritz +2 more
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Modeling the Choice of Work Schedule with Flexible Work Hours
Transportation Science, 1984Flexible work hours have been promoted as a low cost approach to improve the productivity of the existing transportation system. However, analytical tools are needed to evaluate the impact such policies have on workers' arrival time choices. This paper develops a behaviorally based structure, using utility maximization concepts, to relate travel ...
Anthony J. Moore +2 more
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The Behavioral Impacts of Flexible Working Hours
1980This paper presents new results on the behavioral responses to flextime, a system of flexible working hours. Flextime is of particular interest as a transportation systems management strategy that has potentially significant impacts on work schedules, travel behavior, traffic congestion, and energy consumption.
Ott, Marian +4 more
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Flexible working hours for academic librarians in Nigeria
Library Review, 2003In order that librarians may achieve research success within the academic environment, a convenient working schedule equivalent to that of teaching colleagues is a sine qua non. To investigate this issue, a descriptive survey, including a questionnaire, was used to examine the opinions of selected academic librarians on the issue of flexible working ...
Richard Olorunsola, I.J. Ibegbulam
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