Allowing workers to control their work hours (working-time autonomy) is a controversial policy for worker empowerment, with concerns that range from increased shirking to excessive intensification of work. Empirical evidence, however, supports neither view. Recent studies find that working-time...

Working time; flexible working time patterns, job control, workers control, working-time sovereignty, work-life-balance, work load, stress. - A flexible arrangement of working hours, giving leeway to the employees for the working hours distribution, shall manage a lot: On the one hand it shall...