Work Trends | Chapter 10
Additional Studies and Reports
For over two decades, Work Trends has explored a variety of important topics about work and workers in the United States. These studies examine workers’ awareness of employee benefit programs, employers’ views on workplace accessibility, and opinions about supporting working families and work-based wellness programs.
Work and Family: How Employers and Workers Can Strike the Balance
A study offering an in-depth analysis of workers’ ability to balance work and family, the policies made available by employers to help their employees achieve this balance, and workers’ attitudes about the policies designed to address the need to balance work and family. The survey was conducted from February 5 to 22, 1999. A total of 1,000 telephone interviews were completed with adult members of the workforce in the contiguous United States.
Making the Grade? What American Workers Think Should be Done to Improve Education
Working Americans expressed their views on how well their schools, colleges, and universities were performing, what changes would improve the education students receive, and who is responsible for ensuring that students learn the skills they need to succeed at work. The survey was conducted from May 10 to 29, 2000. A total of 1,015 telephone interviews were completed with adult members of the workforce in the contiguous United States.
Restricted Access A Survey of Employers About People with Disabilities and Lowering Barriers to Work
A survey of the nation’s employers regarding their views on people with disabilities in the workplace, the accommodation of these workers, and policy strategies needed to increase workplace accessibility for all workers and job seekers. A total of 501 businesses were interviewed by telephone from November 10 to December 3, 2002. Businesses were selected randomly from a database of all businesses throughout the continental United States. Businesses with fewer than five employees were not included in the sample. Colleges, universities, and governmental offices were ineligible to participate.
Healthy at Work? Unequal Access to Employer Wellness Programs
A survey of working adults about the widespread awareness of wellness programs among American workers, but unequal access to these programs. Workers had a variety of opinions about what companies could do to incentivize or penalize health-related behavior and expressed concerns about privacy and what employers should know about their employees’ health records. The national telephone survey was conducted from March 19 to 29, 2009 among 583 adults working full- or part-time jobs.
This study explored the opinions and experiences of Americans more than seven years after the official end of the recession in June 2009. Examining a sample of over 800 respondents in a general population survey, this report provided a look into how Americans felt about the economy at that time, comparing the results to previous studies conducted during and after the recession. The study was fielded from August 3 to 11, 2016 online with a national probability sample of 822 U.S. residents age 18 or older.