September 30, 1999 (The Editor’s Desk is updated each business day.)
Incidence of flexible work schedules increases
From 1991 to 1997,
the percent of full-time wage and salary workers with flexible work
schedules on their principal job increased from 15.1 percent to 27.6
percent.
![Percent of full-time wage and salary workers with flexible schedules on their principal job by marital status, May of 1991 and 1997](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20121017122120im_/http://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/images/1999/Sept/wk5/art04.gif) [Chart data—TXT]
Workers who were married with a spouse present were more likely to have
flexible work schedules in 1997. Nearly 29 percent of such workers had
flexible schedules, compared with 26 percent of workers who had another
marital status. In 1991, married workers with a spouse present had a lower
incidence of flexible schedules than workers with other marital status.
Workers with children under 6 years of age had an above-average
incidence—over 30 percent—of flexible schedules in 1997. Nearly 31
percent of married workers with a spouse present and children under six
had flexible schedules, compared with about 27 percent of workers with
other marital status and children under 6.
These data are a product of the Current
Population Survey program. Find out
more in Chapter 3 of Report
on the American Workforce 1999
(PDF 1,037K).
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