Working mothers who think of doing part-time jobs with flexible schedules are likely to end up working an increased amount of unpaid overtime, new research has found.
This was found to be the case for both professional men (about one hour more a week on average) and women without children (about 40 minutes more a week on average). But, for part-time working mothers the unpaid overtime was around 20 minutes more a week.
Schedule control — where workers are able to determine their own hours and schedules, so long as the job is done.
While for the first two types of flexible working, there was little evidence of an increase in unpaid overtime hours, for those who gained schedule control over their work there was an increase in the amount of unpaid overtime.