A QUESTION OF TIMING

Abstract

E R S avoid the peak-hour commute, employers have been adopting flextime work schedules.Some workers' jobs already permit flexible work hours, so a lot of employees should be commuting during off-peak hours.But, alas, the survey I've just completed finds it ain't necessarily so.Given the opportunity to avoid heavy traffic, I had to ask: why does anyone still commute during the peak hours?RUSHING INTO THE RUSH HOUR P e rhaps the question is not as outrageous as it seems.Patricia Mokhtarian and Ilan Solomon re p o rted in a recent issue of AC C E S S that people don't mind commuting as much as conventional wisdom suggests, indeed that some rather enjoy it.To deal specific a l l y with the flextime question, I sur veyed faculty and staff at the Berkeley campus of the University of California, where both flextime and normally permissive work schedules

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