> RELEASED TODAY: In May 1997, about 25.0 million full-time wage and
> salary workers had flexible work schedules that allowed them to vary the
> time they began or ended work. The proportion of workers with such
> schedules was 27.6 percent, up sharply from the 15.1 percent recorded
> when the data were last collected in May 1991. The increase in flexible
> work schedules was widespread across demographic groups, occupations,
> and industries ....About 15.2 million persons normally worked a shift
> other than a regular daytime schedule ....
These are astounding figures. Can anyone in the class correlate them
with the growth of computer use?
When I started ranting about the organic need for flex-time ~20 years ago
most people treated me like something left behind by a flying saucer;
their utter lack of imagination seemed more a manifestation of the law of
entropy than a political failing. No doubt they now say that they knew it
all along. It's so exhilarating to live in a country of pioneers!
valis
