1). Other researchers found that certain activities are best performed at certain times of the day, and that flextime permits employees to schedule such tasks when they are most productive (Personal effectiveness, 1991, p. 30).
The need for child day care and the need for elder care stem from two separate problems. The responsibility for addressing each of the problems, however, most often falls to the same group of people--persons employed outside of the home. Thus, responses to each of the problems hold implications for employers.
In contemporary American society, it is necessary for all adults in a majority of the country's households to work outside of the home, if an acceptable standard of living is to be maintained (Belsky, 1990, pp. 10-12). When pre-school age children are present in these households, the problems become exacerbated. As a point of fact, 57 percent of mothers with pre school age children now hold jobs outside of
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