Work schedules are a defining feature of the quality of employment. labor market and consider their ramifications for workersвЂ™ experiences of insecurity, both economic and societal. In this article, we examine the prevalence of a broad set of scheduling practices in the U.S. These practices-varying the number and timing of employeesвЂ™ work hours, providing little advance notice of work hours, and offering employees limited input into their work schedule-can undermine job quality by structuring instability and unpredictability into employeesвЂ™ work and personal lives, and if paid by the hour, earnings as well. Across industries, frontline managers have adopted scheduling practices designed to keep labor flexible, facilitating their ability to meet their firmвЂ™s accountability requirements that restrict outlays for labor. The findings highlight the importance of examining constellations of scheduling practices and considering the direction of work-hour fluctuations when investigating the ramifications of todayвЂ™s scheduling practices for quality of employment and quality of life.Д®mployer scheduling practices are part of broader societal transformations in which a growing proportion of social and economic risk is being shouldered by individuals and families rather than firms and government (Appelbaum and Batt 2014 Hacker 2006 Kalleberg 2011 Kalleberg and Vallas 2017 Lambert 2008 Standing 2011 Weil 2014). Although the data suggest that precarious scheduling practices are widespread in the labor market, workers who are black, young, and without a college degree appear to be at highest risk. Our analyses suggest that scheduling practices that introduce instability and unpredictability into workersвЂ™ lives undermine perceptions of security in unique ways for hourly and salaried workers. Volatile hours, limited schedule input, and short advance notice are all dimensions of precarious work schedules. workers by undermining perceptions of security, both economic and societal.

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