TY  - RPRT
        AU  - DeVaro, Jed
        TI  - Work Schedules
        PY  - 2024/Jun/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 17061
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp17061
        AB  - 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. Long hours are found to go hand-in-hand with flextime, and the employer finds flextime less appealing when wages exogenously increase. Analysis of a worker-employer matched panel of British workplaces surveyed in 2004 and 2011 reveals that flextime and other flexible work practices mitigate the productivity-eroding consequences of long hours.
        KW  - work hours
KW  - labor productivity
KW  - human resources management practices
KW  - flextime
KW  - work-life flexibility
KW  - workplace flexibility
KW  - work schedules
KW  - scheduling
KW  - working from home
KW  - flexible work practices
KW  - diminishing returns
        ER  -