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The Realities of Unpredictable Work Schedules for America's Hourly ...


The Realities of Unpredictable Work Schedules for America's Hourly ...

Our findings provide a snapshot of problematic scheduling practices experienced by adults aged 26 to 32 who are starting their careers in today's labor market.

It's About Time: How Work Schedule Instability Matters for Workers ...

Particularly in the food-service and retail sectors, which employ 17% of American workers, such unstable and unpredictable work schedules are ...

Working by the hour: The economic consequences of unpredictable ...

Unpredictable scheduling practices shift the risk of doing business away from firms and onto workers and their families. In doing so, workers ...

The Very Real Hardship of Unpredictable Work Schedules

So called "just-in-time scheduling" is far more common for those who work for hourly wages or are part-time employees, or both. Part-time ...

Do Unpredictable Hours Undermine Upward Mobility?

They find that 41% of hourly workers learn their schedules less than a week in advance—more than know at least a month in advance. Half of ...

It's About Time: How Work Schedule Instability Matters for Workers ...

employ 17% of American workers, such unstable and unpredictable work schedules are widespread. ... “Scheduling Challenges Among Workers in Low-Wage. Hourly Jobs ...

Hard Times: Routine Schedule Unpredictability and Material ... - NCBI

American policymakers have long focused on work as a key means to improve economic wellbeing. Yet, work has become increasingly precarious ...

Unstable Work Schedules and Earnings Volatility

Unpredictable work schedules are also common, especially for hourly workers, part-time workers, and workers in the retail and service sectors.

A research roundup on unpredictable schedules in the United States

For Americans with a 9-to-5 job, it can be hard to imagine the life of a worker with an unpredictable, constantly shifting schedule.

Unpredictable schedules adversely affect worker well-being: report

“Our work and hour regulations simply haven't kept up with the reality of these scheduling practices, and workers need basic guardrails to ...

Peter J. Fugiel - Scholars Strategy Network

The Realities of Unpredictable Work Schedules for America's Hourly Employees. Susan J. Lambert; Julia R. Henly. Key Findings Brief, March 2016. In the News.

Unpredictable work hours and volatile incomes are long-term risks ...

Irregular work hours lead to income volatility for hourly wage workers, increasing the difficulty of making ends meet.

SCHEDULING AWAY OUR HEALTH: - Human Impact Partners

financial strain for hourly workers because unpredictable schedules mean ... Double Jeopardy: The Misfit between Welfare-to-Work Requirements and Job. Realities.

The Schedules That Work Act: Giving Workers the Tools They Need ...

Many of the low-paid, hourly, service sector jobs in which just-in-time scheduling practices are most concentrated are jobs that women are especially likely to ...

Workers don't know their schedules until the last minute. That's a big ...

“Unstable and unpredictable work schedules continue to be the norm for service sector workers — especially for workers of color, and for ...

Unstable Work Schedules and Earnings Volatility | Poverty Facts

Unpredictable work schedules are also common, especially for hourly workers, ... In 2013, 31 percent of American workers experienced income irregularity, with 42 ...

Daily Occurrence and Effects on Working Parents' Well-Being - PMC

... hourly jobs and the effects of work schedule unpredictability on worker and family well ... American Community Survey (ACS) to ...

Scheduling in Hourly Jobs: Promising Practices for the Twenty-First ...

... realities of hourly jobs that make it difficult for ... Hourly workers increasingly experience fluctuating and reduced work hours and unpredictable work.

NANCY K. CAUTHEN - Demos

In addition to high turnover, the characteristics of JIT scheduling — unpredictable sched- ules and unstable hours in the context of low-wage, hourly jobs — are ...

Precarious Work Schedules Could Jeopardize Access to Safety Net ...

Unstable or unpredictable work hours could make it difficult for safety net program participants to consistently meet minimum work hour thresholds or to ...