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UK Professor, Alumna’s Research in The Wall Street Journal

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Nov. 18, 2005) – A University of Kentucky College of Social Work professor and alumna’s research on flexible scheduling by employers is featured prominently in the Nov. 17 edition of The Wall Street Journal. Jennifer Swanberg and Krista Drescher-Burke worked with Marcie Pitt-Catsouphes, an associate professor of social work at Boston College, to analyze the changes workers are seeing in flexible scheduling in today’s workplace.

The Wall Street Journal piece titled “Fairer Flextime: Employers Try New Policies for Alternative Schedules” is featured in columnist Sue Shellenbarger’s Work & Family column. The column cites a study of 2,887 workers subject to new models of flexible schedules featured in the September 2005 issue of the Journal of Family Issues. The study chronicled employers methods of providing flexible scheduling in the work environment that answered both the businesses and the employees’ needs.

The study found that employers are making flexible scheduling more fair by a few key steps, including allowing all employees to apply for flexible schedules; requiring proposals outlining how plans will work; evaluating flexible setups regularly; making scheduling a team responsibility; and training people to back up co-workers.

With over two million readers, The Wall Street Journal is considered by many to be the premium financial newspaper in the world. Top world news, critical industry-specific reports, in-depth technology coverage, as well as astute financial insight are brought to its readers daily by the more than 1,650 analysts and writers at the publication.

Swanberg, who came to UK in 2000, earned a Bachelor of Science in occupational therapy at the University of New Hampshire and received her master’s in

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management and doctorate in social policy from the Heller School of Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University. She previously worked at McLean Hospital, The Institute for Child, Youth and Family Policy at Brandeis University’s Heller School, Families and Work Institute, and the National Center on Alcohol and Substance Abuse. Swanberg is a nationally recognized expert on work-family issues with appearances on CNN, MSNBC, NPR and CBS. She teaches classes in research, social welfare policy, and mental health policy, and is taking part in a number of collaborative research efforts that target policies affecting low wage, hourly workers.

Drescher-Burke is an alumna of UK’s College of Social Work, earning a Bachelor of Science and her master’s degree in social work at UK. She currently is a doctoral student and research assistant at the University of California Berkeley School of Social Welfare.

For more information on this research, contact Swanberg at (859) 257-3351.

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