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Table 21.4 Examples of staggered and flexible work hour programs in the United States
—
mid
1970s
Location
Number of employees
Staggered
work hours
Flexible
work hours
Chicago, IL
Montgomery Ward
500
East Hanover, NJ
Sandoz Inc.
1,300
East Meadow, NY
Lufthansa Airlines (executive office)
300
Madison, WI
City/county/state employees
17,000
Minneapolis, MN
Control data corporation (and most of its US of
ces)
20,000
New York, NY
400 Manhattan rms
220,000
Palo Alto, CA
Hewlett-Packard (15 facilities)
16,000
Philadelphia, PA
Center city employees
33,500
St. Paul, MN
3M company
12,000
St. Paul company (and several of its regional offices)
5,000
Washington, DC
Six federal departments
50,000
White plains, NY
Nestle company
700
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congestion on subways, commuter rail
lines, buses, and building elevators. It
successfully achieved these goals:
6 % fewer passengers were carried on the Lower Manhattan subway lines during
the busiest 10 min period
At the PATH terminal, the volume of passengers during the busiest 15 min
evening period dropped 13 % (from 7,500 to 6,500), while the passenger vol-
ume during the lightest 15 min period rose by 48 % (from 3,100 to 4,600).
flexible hours
experiment that lasted 8 months and involved 850 headquarters staff. The experi-
ment consisted of employees who were on a conventional work schedule and
employees who were on staggered hours.
It was found that employees who changed their work hours from a
In September 1974, the Port Authority of NY and NJ began a
fl
xed sche-
dule to
fl
flextime reduced their peak arrival and departure volumes by signi
cant
