Flexible Work Solutions

Health & the Workplace

Hourly Jobs

Immigrant Workers & Families

Intimate Partner Violence, Employment & the Workplace

Older Workers

Regional Economic Development

Working Caregivers

iWin research on hourly jobs seeks to identify the job and workplace factors that contribute to optimal outcomes for organizations, employees and working families.

Quality Work Environments for Hourly Workers
Principal Investigator: Jennifer Swanberg, Ph.D.
Co-Principal Investigator: Jacqueline B. James, Ph.D., Boston College
Mac Werner, MSW
Mamta U. Ojha, MSW

Quality Work Environments for Hourly Workers explores employee and organizational benefits associated with a work environment that considers the work and family needs of workers employed hourly, front-line jobs.  The study is designed to examine: the effects of flexible work practices on hourly workers’ ability to manage work and family; the associated benefits of flexible work practices for hourly workers’ on business outcomes; and the management and supervisor strategies used to cultivate a flexible and responsive workplace for workers in hourly jobs.

This project is funded by the Ford Foundation. For more information, please contact
Dr. Jennifer Swanberg.