Shift lead investigator and University of Pennsylvania Adjunct Associate Professor Kristen Harknett was interviewed for this piece on the City of Philadelphia as a living lab for UPenn researchers. Alongside public heath experts, urban designers, physicians, criminologists, and others, investigators Harknett and Daniel Schneider show that workplace scheduling practices are a key component of a population's economic, physical, and mental wellbeing.
The Shift Project’s policy brief on Philadelphia retail and food-service workers was cited by the Philadelphia Inquirer’s Editorial Board today. The editorial endorsed secure scheduling legislation proposed by Philadelphia Councilmember Helen Gym, calling the bill “smart business” and stressing its important for mitigating stress and hardship for workers.
Philadelphia City Councilmember Helen Gym introduced fair work week legislation today that would regulate the way businesses manage employees' work schedules. NBC's Philadelphia syndicate published this story about the bill and cited The Shift Project's policy brief titled “Working in the Service Sector in Philadelphia," which documents routine instability in work schedules in the retail and food sectors in Philadelphia.
A new article published by The Atlantic’s CityLab highlights The Shift Project’s research, including the Shift policy brief titled “Working in the Service Sector in Connecticut." The majority of survey respondents experience schedule instability and unpredictability, which create hardships and stress for themselves and their families.
An article on fair scheduling laws and the future of the fair labor standards movement highlights the role of academic research in informing policy debates. The piece highlights Shift data and points specifically to the role of Shift's research brief on Connecticut, where policy efforts to regulate scheduling were underway this spring.
Shift researcher Daniel Schneider weighed in on this piece about family insecurity in American suburbs. According to Shift data, service-sector workers with unpredictable schedules experience stark income swings and financial insecurity.
The Philadelphia Inquirer has a new story out that features Kristen Harknett and Daniel Schneider’s research on work scheduling in the service sector in Philadelphia. The article describes findings from The Shift Project and new legislation to regulate work schedules that has been proposed in Philadelphia. Previous press coverage of the Shift research brief on Philadelphia appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer, The Philadelphia Citizen, the Billy Penn, and on WHYY.
The Hartford Business Journal reported on Shift's Connecticut brief as advocates geared up to bring SB321, a bill that would ensure a "fair workweek" for hourly workers, back to the Connecticut legislature for a vote. Of the 438 Connecticut on-call workers represented in our data, 66 percent reported having to keep their schedules open for work without guaranteed hours, and 74 percent of workers expressed a desire for more predictable work schedules.
Shift's Philadelphia research brief is highlighted in this article from BillyPenn. A group of workers and policymakers in Philadelphia are advocating for secure scheduling legislation for the city's low-wage retail and service-industry workers.
