{"resolved":true,"match_type":"uuid","source_type":"original_book","book_id":"0cf5c9df-7116-426e-ae21-ce72b2ccbe50","title":"Pressed for Time The Acceleration of Life in Digital Capitalism","author":null,"edition":null,"publisher":null,"year":null,"isbn":"9780226196473","requested_by":"printed_page","book":{"source_type":"original_book","book_id":"0cf5c9df-7116-426e-ae21-ce72b2ccbe50","id":"0cf5c9df-7116-426e-ae21-ce72b2ccbe50","uuid":"0cf5c9df-7116-426e-ae21-ce72b2ccbe50","title":"Pressed for Time The Acceleration of Life in Digital Capitalism","normalized_title":"pressedfortimetheaccelerationoflifeindigitalcapitalism","author":null,"edition":null,"publisher":null,"year":null,"isbn":"9780226196473","isbns":["9780226196473","9780226196503"],"parsed":true,"ai_readable":true,"document_type":"book","page_count":228,"navigation_url":"https://workshop.closeclaw.top/ai/book/0cf5c9df-7116-426e-ae21-ce72b2ccbe50","title_url":"https://workshop.closeclaw.top/ai/title/Pressed%20for%20Time%20The%20Acceleration%20of%20Life%20in%20Digital%20Capitalism","fixed_page_url_template":"https://workshop.closeclaw.top/ai/book/0cf5c9df-7116-426e-ae21-ce72b2ccbe50/page/{printed_page}","path_api_url_template":"https://workshop.closeclaw.top/api/ai/book/0cf5c9df-7116-426e-ae21-ce72b2ccbe50/page/{printed_page}","read_url":"https://workshop.closeclaw.top/api/ai/read/0cf5c9df-7116-426e-ae21-ce72b2ccbe50","page_url":"https://workshop.closeclaw.top/api/ai/books/0cf5c9df-7116-426e-ae21-ce72b2ccbe50/page","search_url":"https://workshop.closeclaw.top/api/ai/books/0cf5c9df-7116-426e-ae21-ce72b2ccbe50/search"},"page":{"printed_page":77,"pdf_page":89,"physical_index":89,"physical_index_base":0,"printed_page_status":"recognized","page_sha256":"80b71f7e4b9434fd22c899b49ce84cb9a0516f50b63898842dd0c79adadaead7"},"chapter":"Pressed for Time","content":"While this exposition of temporal disorganization adds a great deal to our understanding of time pressure, the focus has again shifted somewhat from households toward individuals. We have already seen that dual-earner families are the most time pressured, and it is precisely at the level of households where most of the coordination problems arise. The issue of coordination among spouses is a crucial underpinning of the demand for flexible start and finish times at work. When both partners participate in the labor force, the family’s day becomes more complex as work schedules may not overlap or, in other words, may be desynchronized. Everyday family life is diferent when work schedules are desynchronized, as couples tend to spend less time together but share domestic and parental work more equally.\n\nThe incidence of, and reasons for, of scheduling among dual-earner couples (that is, partners’ timing their work schedule so that one is not working when the other one is) are therefore directly related to time pressure. And, indeed, there is strong evidence that of scheduling is both widespread and growing. Based on a study of French time-use surveys, Laurent Lesnard found that families in which both partners work standard workdays (of approximately eight hours) represent less than half of total family workdays.42 About 70 percent of the work time of these couples is simultaneous (synchronous). For the rest, atypical family workdays are the result of long hours, shift work, part-time work, and short or irregular work hours. This pattern is consistent with findings for the United States and many other modern economies.\n\nBut is this trend the result of couples freely choosing to reschedule their work, trading time together for parental eficiency? In the study, the few couples who have control over their timing overwhelmingly favor family workdays, suggesting a strong general preference among couples for synchronized work schedules. However, most couples do not have temporal autonomy over their work hours. Atypical work schedules and of scheduling are highly correlated with employment sector, occupation, and position on the social ladder. When husbands’ positions are at the management level, standard workdays are much more common than for factory-worker families. Those who have no power over their work schedules have strikingly higher chances of having desynchronized family workdays. In other words, very few couples are free to fix the timing of their work hours. Dual-earner couples’ of scheduling is thus a consequence of employers’ economic behavior rather than employees’ preferences.\n\nThe Time-Pressure Paradox\n\n77","previous_page":76,"next_page":78}