Realities of Flextime

Although 20% of advertised jobs offer some sort of flexible scheduling,  a closer examination of these jobs reveals that they are often low-paying, non-professional positions in the food, installation or personal care industries.  Exceptions to this pattern can be found in health services & practitioners, computers, and sales. Positions such as, sales representative/manager, systems and business analyst, and medical claims or patient advocate are flexible.  But, they often require a full-time commitment.

Take a working mom from northern New Jersey,  for example.  She worked in sales all her life, generally for employers based in California. As  a result, she worked from home, but put in long hours, even while her children were young. Now, that she has switched to a NY-based company, she commutes daily. So she had a flexible but demanding full-time job.