Archived articles from The Editor’s Desk— Hours

• Happy Mother’s Day from BLS: working mothers in 2012 (05/10/2013)
• Labor productivity, first quarter 2013 (05/03/2013)
• Real earnings in March 2013 (04/18/2013)
• Real earnings in February 2013 (03/19/2013)
• Illness-related work absences in January 2013 highest since February 2008 (02/19/2013)
• International gross domestic product (GDP) comparisons, 2011 (02/12/2013)
• Productivity, output, and hours worked, fourth quarter 2012 (02/08/2013)
• International manufacturing productivity, 2011 (12/20/2012)
• Nonfarm business productivity, second quarter 2012 (09/06/2012)
• Time use of youths of immigrant and native-born parents, 2003–2010 (07/12/2012)
• Time spent working, 2011 (07/02/2012)
• Eldercare in 2011 (06/26/2012)
• First quarter 2012 nonfarm business sector productivity (06/07/2012)
• Nonfarm business labor productivity, first quarter 2012 (05/04/2012)
• Employer-provided life insurance benefits, 2011 (04/06/2012)
• Average time spent caring for household children, 2006–2010 (09/02/2011)
• Time spent in leisure activities, 2010 (06/27/2011)
• Average time spent caring for household children, 2005–2009 (07/01/2010)
• Percent of men and women engaged in household activities, 2009 (06/29/2010)
• Hours spent on childcare by mothers and fathers, 2003–07 (12/09/2009)
• Hours spent doing unpaid household work by age and sex, 2003–07 (08/06/2009)
• Access to medical care benefits: private industry vs. State and local government (07/29/2009)
• Comparisons of full- and part-time hourly earnings, 2007 (07/28/2009)
• Time spent in household activities, 2008 (06/29/2009)
• Average hours that men and women worked in 2008 (06/25/2009)
• Working at home, 2003-2007 (06/23/2009)
• Which workers spend the most time working at home? (04/28/2009)
• Involuntary part-time work (01/06/2009)
• Healthcare occupations and workdays (09/19/2008)
• Household activities in 2007 (06/27/2008)
• Average hours that men and women worked in 2007 (06/26/2008)
• Older teachers work more hours than younger teachers (04/25/2008)
• Retirement benefits of State and local government workers (03/26/2008)
• Working at home in 2006 (07/13/2007)
• Household activities in 2006 (07/03/2007)
• Average hours of work of men and women, 2006 (07/02/2007)
• The average day, 2006 (06/29/2007)
• Men’s and women’s work hours, 2005 (10/04/2006)
• Time spent at work in 2004 (10/07/2005)
• Leisure activities in 2004 (10/06/2005)
• The average day in 2004 (09/22/2005)
• Flexible work schedules in 2004 (07/05/2005)
• Absence rates and industry, 2004 (02/15/2005)
• Absence rates and occupation, 2004 (02/14/2005)
• Hours: Two surveys compared (01/06/2005)
• Women work more hours per week than in the past (04/27/2004)
• Hours, earnings, and payrolls in August (09/08/2003)
• Part-time for economic reasons (01/29/2003)
• Farm jobs and managerial positions have lowest absence rate (01/28/2003)
• Earnings of part-timers (07/02/2002)
• Paid by the hour in 2001 (06/27/2002)
• One in 7 work evening, night, other shifts (04/30/2002)
• Over one quarter of full-time workers have flexible schedules (04/19/2002)
• About one in ten 16-year-old students working more than half-time (10/10/2001)
• Are youths working more now than in the past? (10/05/2001)
• Working more than one job in 2000 (09/21/2001)
• Lowest absence rate in farm jobs (03/23/2001)
• Reasons for working part time (03/21/2001)
• How seven pluses and a zero make a small minus for working hours (01/29/2001)
• Fewer hours, fewer benefits (09/21/2000)
• Average weekly hours drop in all retail trade industries (09/19/2000)
• Changes in average weekly hours, 1964-99 (09/06/2000)
• Executives most likely to have flexible work hours (07/26/2000)
• Longer hours at the top? (06/21/2000)
• Growth and overtime higher in durables factories (04/11/2000)
• Transportation equipment makers added the most overtime (03/31/2000)
• Overtime contributes to factory recovery (03/24/2000)
• Part-time workers in 1998 (02/23/2000)
• Full-time working couples more common (11/02/1999)
• Most hours in private sector now supplied by those with more than a high school education (09/29/1999)
• Hours worked for women with children rise (09/22/1999)
• Temps work same hours as other services workers (09/15/1999)
• Workweeks shorter in 1998 (04/02/1999)
• Formal flexitime programs not common (10/25/0015)