This paper studies the link between working hours and productivity using daily information on working hours and performance of a sample of call centre agents. We exploit variation in the number of hours worked by the same employee across days and weeks due to central scheduling, enabling us to...

This paper presents a profit-oriented shift scheduling approach for inbound contact centers. The focus is on systems in which multiple agent classes with different qualifications serve multiple customer classes with different needs. We assume that customers are impatient, abandon if they have to...

Off-shoring customer service : a new global order -- Mobility-morality narratives : the effects of the industry on the physical mobility of women -- Traveling at night : the effects of night shift employment on the temporal mobility of women -- Fast money, family survival, and the consumer class...