Abstract EN:

The new types of work schedules are modifying the life-styles of wage-earners. Their impact varies according to whether they have been chosen or whether they are compulsory. Three types of work schedules are being analyzed in this study: - desynchronized work schedules (week and work, night work, shift work) ; - reduced work schedules (part-time, half time) ; - flexible work schedules. Wage-earners who have accepted or chosen their new work-schedule describe their new life style in a positive way. The family (and especially children) benefit from the change in life style; sometimes, it is even the very reason for the change of work schedule (reduced work time). The new work-schedule, however, are to problems which the "non-volunteers" (i. E. Wage-earners who have experienced a compulsory change of their work schedules) heavily emphasize. The experience of a new life style goes along with a new mastery of the several types of time in everyday life (work time, family time, free time. . . ).