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Improving Work-Life Fit in Hourly Jobs
The Center for WorkLife Law
· Kodak, with 62,000 employees in the
U.S. offers compressed workweeks; all
employees are eligible to apply. (McGuire
& Brashler n.d.)
· Thomas Industries, a Minnesota company
that manufactures steel components,
offers compressed workweeks consisting
of three 12-hour days. (Labor Project for
Working Families 2001)
· Bright Horizons, which manages more
than 600 child care centers and has more
than 18,000 employees, offers compressed
workweeks. (Corporate Voices n.d.)
· The U.S. Food and Drug Administration
offers compressed workweeks of four 10-
hour days or "nine-day fortnight" (i.e.,
nine 9-hour days in a two-week period,
with every 10
th
day off). (Labor Project for
Working Families n.d.)
· One department of PNC Financial Services
Group, a bank with 2,500 branches and
59,000 employees, offers a nine-day
fortnight, in which they work 8.5 hours
a day in week one and 10.5 hours a day
in week two, with a half hour for lunch.
Schedules can be changed twice a year.
(Corporate Voices n.d.)
· Wachovia Corporation offers compressed
workweeks. (Litchfield, Swanberg &
Sigworth 2004)
· The Redwoods Community College
District in California offers four 10-hour
days, four 9-hour days and one 4-hour day,
and other schedules, by agreement of the
employees and their supervisors. (Labor
Project for Working Families n.d.)
· The MITRE Corporation, a government
contractor with 7,000 employees, allows
workers at all levels to choose from a
variety of flex options, including shortened
workweek. (Giglio n.d.)
· Rosetti, an architectural, design and
planning firm with 58 employees, has
a Summer Hours program in which
employees work a 9-hour day for nine
days, and one 4-hour day. (Giglio n.d.)
· Texas Instruments allows its manufacturing
employees to work a compressed
workweek. (Giglio n.d.)
· AFLAC, a Fortune 500 insurance
company, offers a variety of full-time
workweeks, including a 4-by-10 shift and
a 3-by-12 shift. (Giglio n.d.)
· ARUP Laboratories, a national reference
lab, offers its technical and support
sections a 7-On/7-Off schedule, in which
employees work seven 10-hour days, with
the following seven days off. Workers on
this schedule have 26 weeks off a year,
and so are not offered additional time off.
(Giglio n.d.)
· KPMG LLP offers compressed workweeks.
(Giglio n.d.)
· Bottom Line Systems, Inc. (BLS), provides
medical services to 85 client companies,
offers allows associates to work four nine-
hour days, followed by one four-hour day.
(Swanberg 2010)
· Timberland, which makes footwear,
clothing and gear and employers 5,200
people, offers compressed schedules of
four 10-hour days. (Giglio n.d.)
· PNC Financial Services Group, a bank with
2,500 branches and 59,000 employees,
hires part-time telework employees to
respond to customer inquiries by email.
"I've noticed with the compressed
[workweek], the attendance level is
better."