WHEN WORK WORKS
Summary of Families and Work Institute Research Findings
By James T. Bond*, Ellen Galinsky*, and E. Jeffrey Hill**
Prepared and Published with Funding from IBM
Part I: FLEXIBILITY: A CRITICAL INGREDIENT IN CREATING AN EFFECTIVE WORKPLACE
Today's economy is far different than the economy of the past.
- It is increasingly knowledge- and service-based and technology-driven.
- It is global.
- It is fast-paced and fiercely competitive.
- It is 24/7.
Today's workforce is different than the US workforce in the past.
- It is more ethnically diverse-21 percent are people of color today versus 12 percent in 1977.
- It includes almost equal numbers of men and women-51 percent men and 49 percent women.
- It has also aged as the Baby Boom generation has moved through the ranks-with fewer young employees (22% under 30 today versus 37% in 1977) and more older employees (56% are 40 or older today versus 38% in 1977).
This is not your father's workforce.
- In fact, far fewer fathers are the only ones bringing home the bacon-one in three (33%) today, compared with just more than one in two (51%) 25 years ago.
- The job-for-life has been replaced with growing job mobility and job insecurity-only 36 percent feel truly secure in their jobs (or report that it is not at all likely that they will lose their jobs in the next two years) versus 45 percent 25 years ago.
- Employees no longer work from 9 to 5-men now work 48.2 hours per week on average while women (including the 24% who work part-time) average 41.4 hours. And just more than one in four (26%) U.S. employees works at least one weekend day.
* Families and Work Institute
**IBM and Brigham Young University
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