Reduce or Compress? Panel Survey Evidence from the UK on Working Time Arrangements and Wellbeing

Speaker: William Fleming

Working time compression and working time reduction are two arrangements which are regularly confused, especially in corporate and public policy. Using the same dataset - UK Household Longitudinal Survey / Understanding Society - this paper compares the two working time arrangements through subjective wellbeing and domestic labour outcomes. Findings reveal divergent implications for workers.  

William Fleming is Research Fellow at the Wellbeing Research Centre, University of Oxford.