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Businesses fall short on workplace flexibility

Published in Biotech Law Weekly, August 31st, 2007

New research from the University of Cincinnati suggests workers want more flexibility in their work schedules, but barriers in the workplace are keeping them quiet behind their cubicles, counters and assembly lines. Lisa M. Fisher and Therese A. Sprinkle, both doctoral candidates in the UC Department of Sociology, presented their paper, “Workplace Structure and Flexible Work Arrangements: Examining How Workplaces Fall Short and Why Workers Accept It,” at the 102nd-annual meeting of the American Sociological Association.

Fisher and Sprinkle analyzed data from the 2002 National Study of the Changing Workforce conducted by the Families & Work Institute – a nonprofit...

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