Workplace Flexibility: Realigning 20th-Century Jobs for a 21st-Century Workforce

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Contents Preface vii Acknowledgments xi Introduction: Evidence of the Worker and Workplace Mismatch 1 Kathleen Christensen and Barbara Schneider Part 1 TWENTY-FIRST-CENTURY WORKERS AND FAMILY LIFE 1. The Long Reach of the Job: Employment and Time for Family Life Suzanne M. Bianchi and Vanessa R. Wight 17 2. Multitasking among Working Families: A Strategy for Dealing with the Time Squeeze Shira Offer and Barbara Schneider 43 3. Coming Together at Dinner: A Study of Working Families Elinor Ochs, Merav Shohet, Belinda Campos, and Margaret Beck 57 Part 2 THE MISFIT BETWEEN OLD WORKPLACES AND A NEW WORKFORCE 4. Customizing Careers by Opting Out or Shifting Jobs: Dual-Earners Seeking Life-Course “Fit” Phyllis Moen and Qinlei Huang 73 5. Keeping Engaged Parents on the Road to Success Sylvia Ann Hewlett 95 6. Elderly Labor Supply: Work or Play? Steven J. Haider and David S. Loughran 110 Part 3 WORKPLACE FLEXIBILITY: VOLUNTARY EMPLOYER PRACTICES IN THE UNITED STATES 7. Employer-Provided Workplace Flexibility Ellen Galinsky, Kelly Sakai, Sheila Eby, James T. Bond, and Tyler Wigton 131 8. Will the Real Family-Friendly Employer Please Stand Up: Who Permits Work Hour Reductions for Childcare? Robert Hutchens and Patrick Nolen 157 9. Workplace Flexibility for Federal Civilian Employees Kathleen Christensen, Matthew Weinshenker, and Blake Sisk 178 vi CONTENTS 10. The Odd Disconnect: Our Family-Hostile Public Policy Joan C. Williams 196 Part 4 WORKPLACE FLEXIBILITY: PRACTICES FROM ABROAD 11. Limiting Working Time and Supporting Flexibility for Employees: Public Policy Lessons from Europe Janet C. Gornick 223 12. Parents’ Experiences of Flexible Work Arrangements in Changing European Workplaces Suzan Lewis and Laura den Dulk 245 13. Work Hours Mismatch in the United States and Australia Robert Drago and Mark Wooden 262 14. Renewed Energy for Change: Government Policies Supporting Workplace Flexibility in Australia Juliet Bourke 276 15. Flexible Employment and the Introduction of Work-Life Balance Programs in Japan Machiko Osawa 303 16. Government Policies Supporting Workplace Flexibility: The State of Play in Japan Sumiko Iwao 317 Conclusions: Solving the Workplace/Workforce Mismatch Kathleen Christensen and Barbara Schneider 337 Notes 351 References 365 Contributors 393 Index 399 ...