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SHRM Weekly Online Survey: April 26, 2005

Summer Hours

• Sample comprised of 428 randomly selected HR professionals.

• Analyzing 428 responses of 2,106 emails sent, 1,999 received (response rate = 21%)

• Survey fielded April 26 – May 2, 2005; presentation generated on May 3, 2005.

• Margin of error is +/- 5%.

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Does your organization’s normal working hours change in any of the following ways in the summer?

38

18

16

2

3

376

395

400

405

410

0 100 200 300 400 500

Compressedworkweek

Same number of hoursworked, but with early

opening and earlyclosing

Early closing on Friday

Shortened work day

One day off a week

No

Yes

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Does your organization’s normal working hours change in any of the following ways in the summer?

Topic Yes No

One day off a week 3 410

Shortened work day (e.g. open from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm instead of 8:00 am to 5:00 pm)

2 405

Early closing on Friday 16 400

Same number of hours worked, but with early opening and early closing (e.g., open from 7:30 am to 3:30 pm instead of 9:00 am to 5:00 pm)

18 395

Compressed workweek (allowing full-time employees to work longer days for part of the week or pay period, in exchange for shorter days, or a day off each week or pay period)

38 376

Other 40

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For what months is your summer schedule in effect?

51%

0%3%

7%9%

13%

18%

0%

10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

60%

May toSeptember

June toAugust

May toAugust

June toSeptember

July toSeptember

July toAugust

Other

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For what months is your summer schedule in effect?

Choice Count Percentage Answered

May to September 26 17.6%

June to August 19 12.8%

May to August 13 8.8%

June to September 11 7.4%

July to September 4 2.7%

July to August 0 0.0%

Other 75 50.7%

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Other

• It varies and it is all at the discretion of the supervisors, division directors and executive director, especially if it is and agency-wide closing.

• Our clients are all around the globe, so all months have the same schedule

• Starting in May, to be ongoing.• There are just black out dates for events• This is really a year round effort, versus just

summertime, to help balance work life expectations.• We do not have a summer schedule• We have flexible hours year round