Shortening working hours and unintended consequences:
Koreans have had some of the longest working hours in the developed world: longer than the workaholic United States, Europe, and even Japan (which is often Korea's benchmark
Gender and the benefits of flexible working hours
Flexible working hours are good, right? The give you a greater degree of control over your own schedule, so you can take time off to pick up the
Shorter working hours don’t always reduce work-to-family interference
One of the strategies that companies and countries use to try to reduce "work-to-family interference" (a term sociologists use for a concept that's fairly close to work-life balance)
Ngrams of unintended consequences
Inspired by the Google Labs Ngram suggesting that we've reached peak future, I decided to map the term "unintended consequences," and for good measure "unanticipated consequences." I've been