Work schedules

Jed DeVaro

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2025, vol. 238, issue C

Abstract: In a new model of work schedules, employers choose the number of working hours and either assign the specific hours worked or let workers choose their preferred hours via flextime. Workers’ preferences over schedules, and their tendencies to fatigue from long shifts, influence their productivities. An inverted-U-shaped hours-output profile arises. Flextime policies shift its peak rightward. Long hours go hand-in-hand with flextime. The employer finds flextime less appealing when wages exogenously increase. Analysis of a worker-employer matched panel of British workplaces in 2004 and 2011 reveals that flextime and other flexible work practices mitigate the productivity erosion from long hours.

Keywords: Work hours; Labor productivity; Human resource management practices; Flextime; Work-life flexibility; Workplace flexibility; Work schedules; Scheduling; Working from home; Flexible work practices; Diminishing returns (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J20 J23 J24 J32 M50 M52 M59 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2025.107209

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