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trip. Over 90 % of the employees involved expressed a favorable reaction to the
demonstration program.
c. Ottawa, Ont. (1970s)
The Canadian government is the city
is dominant employer. At the time of the
experiment, it accounted for about 50 % of the central area
'
s workforce. The effect
of staggered hours for government employees reduced the peak hour to peak period
ratios for all transit passengers by 8
'
19 % [
4
].
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d. St. Paul, Minnesota (mid-1970s)
The 3M Company implemented a staggered work hour program to reduce peak
period auto congestion on roads in the vicinity of the plant. After the program was
in effect for some time the highway department took a traf
c count on these roads
that showed a traf
c reduction during the peak period.
e. San Francisco Flextime (1979)
Results of the Flextime Demonstration Project in San Francisco are shown in
Table
21.6
.
Employees from companies participating in the demonstration project had a
more uniform distribution of arrival times than the rest of downtown employees.
While 61 % of all downtown employees arrived to work between 8:00 and 8:30 am,
only 14
40 % of employees from companies adopting variable work hours arrived
in the same am period.
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f. Hawaii (1988)
A staggered demonstration project was conducted between February 22 and March
18, 1988 to determine whether spreading the arrival times of public employees
would relieve peak period congestion. The State of Hawaii changed of
cial of
ce
hours for public employees from 7:45 a.m.
4:30 p.m. to 8:30 a.m.
5:15 p.m. About
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4,000 workers, or 6
7 % of the downtown workforce participated in the project.
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Table 21.6 Employee arrival times at three san francisco employers adopting variable work times
Arrival time
(AM)
Fireman
'
s fund
(self-staggered
start) (%)
CSAA
(flextime) (%)
Metropolitan life
(flextime) (%)
All downtown
employees (%)
7:00
7:30
31
16
53
8
-
7:30
-
8:00
34
31
24
13
8:00
8:30
20
40
14
61
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8:30
9:00
10
7
6
1
-
After 9:00
5
6
3
17
Total
100
100
100
100
Note
Earliest sanctioned arrival time at CSAA was 7:30 AM
Source
References [
1
], pp 19
70, Table 19.17 and [
17
]
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