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In a new model of work schedules, employers choose the number of working hours and either dictate the exact hours to be worked or delegate that decision to workers via flextime. Workers' preferences over schedules influence their productivities. An inverted-U-shaped hours-output profile arises; flextime policies shift its peak to the right.
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In a new model of work schedules, employers choose the number of working hours and either dictate the exact hours to be worked or delegate that decision to workers via flextime. Workers' preferences over schedules influence their productivities. An inverted-U-shaped hours-output profile arises; flextime policies shift its peak to the right.
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Limits of Work-Stealing Scheduling
2009The number of applications with many parallel cooperating processes is steadily increasing, and developing efficient runtimes for their execution is an important task. Several frameworks have been developed, such as MapReduce and Dryad, but developing scheduling mechanisms that take into account processing and communication requirements is hard.
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Physical Therapy Work Schedules
Physical Therapy, 1984The purpose of this article is to describe the results of a survey sent to the directors of 200 hospital physical therapy departments to determine the work schedules of physical therapists. The results indicated that 26 percent of the inpatient units and 76 percent of the outpatient units had work schedules of eight-hour days, Monday through Friday ...
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Scheduling strategies and speculative work
1991This paper gives a short report on the current state of our research into scheduling speculative tasks in the Aurora or-parallel Prolog system. A Speculative task is one that may be pruned by a cut or commit, rendering any work done on that task to be wasted.
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JAMA, 1989
To the Editor.— Dr McCall 1 begins his editorial in the February 10 issue of JAMA by citing the death of Libby Zion as the catalyst for the sweeping changes in residency training that are occurring in New York and around the country. No one doubts that her death indeed was the impetus for these changes.
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To the Editor.— Dr McCall 1 begins his editorial in the February 10 issue of JAMA by citing the death of Libby Zion as the catalyst for the sweeping changes in residency training that are occurring in New York and around the country. No one doubts that her death indeed was the impetus for these changes.
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American Behavioral Scientist, 2001
More than 27% of the U.S. workforce now reports having an ability to alter their daily starting and ending times of work. Yet, provision of flexibility in the timing of work is not keeping pace with demand. Moreover, there is much disparity in access to schedule flexibility by workers' demographic, work, and job characteristics. Probit estimation finds
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More than 27% of the U.S. workforce now reports having an ability to alter their daily starting and ending times of work. Yet, provision of flexibility in the timing of work is not keeping pace with demand. Moreover, there is much disparity in access to schedule flexibility by workers' demographic, work, and job characteristics. Probit estimation finds
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Work Allocation and Scheduling
2007In the last chapter, we discussed the problem of automating and optimising shift allocations to people in order to meet certain service levels. Now that the number and type of people that need to be rostering in on the day have been determined, there is a need for scheduling work to them.
A. Liret, Raphael Dorne
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Gender, Work Schedules and Work/Family Regulation
WORK: A Journal of Prevention, Assessment & Rehabilitation, 2011Messing, Karen, Caroly, Sandrine
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