Labor Schedule Stability
Topic Schedule Stability

Over the past several decades, employers have used new developments in scheduling software to implement “just-in-time” schedules, canceling or creating shifts with little notice in response to changes in product shipments, customer traffic, and even weather. These scheduling practices shift the risk of doing business away from firms and onto U.S. workers and their families. Equitable Growth is working to build the evidence base on how these scheduling practices—and the interventions designed to curb them—affect workers, their families, and the economy as a whole, and what measures can be put into place to provide schedule stability.

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Automated and algorithmic management is already here, invisibly shaping job quality for U.S. workers

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New research explains how better-quality work schedules increase U.S. retail workers’ productivity and store profits

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New research shows unstable schedules do not offer more flexibility for U.S. workers

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Factsheet: Six frequently asked questions about schedule quality and Fair Workweek laws across the United States

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Unboxing scheduling practices for U.S. warehouse workers

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How U.S. workers’ just-in-time schedules perpetuate racial and ethnic inequality

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Explore Content in Schedule Stability83

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Uncertain Time: Precarious Schedules and Job Turnover in the U.S. Service Sector

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What Explains Race/Ethnic Inequality in Job Quality in the Service Sector?

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Parental Exposure to Routine Work Schedule Uncertainty and Child Behavior

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How U.S. workers’ just-in-time schedules perpetuate racial and ethnic inequality

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Vision 2020: Evidence for a Stronger Economy

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Extensive nonstandard work hours among U.S. low-income mothers hinder their kids’ enrollment in center-based childcare

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How corporate headquarters could support store managers in providing predictable work schedules

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Retail workers’ unpredictable schedules affect sleep quality: Evidence from the Gap

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New research shows links between the quality of U.S. retail workers’ schedules and their well-being

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U.S. economic policies that are pro-work and pro-worker

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In Conversation

In conversation with Hilary Hoynes

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Consequences of Routine Work Schedule Instability for Worker Health and Wellbeing

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