RESEARCH BRIEF | Jan 2022 - Still Unstable: The Persistence of Scheduling Uncertainty During the Pandemic

These data show that, alongside the health At the Federal level, The Schedules That Work Act risks, uncertainty, and stress of working during a explicitly addresses the unstable and unpredictable pandemic, many service-sector workers continue to scheduling practices that continue to plague contend with chronically unpredictable and unstable service sector workers.xv In the industries where work sc. [...] Inattention to hiring more workers.xvi the temporal dimension of precarious work risks continuing a longstanding pattern of neglecting the Service sector workers have staffed the front lines needs of women of color in labor policy initiatives.xiv throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, and yet they remain subject to unstable and unpredictable work The pandemic period has naturally led to heightened sche. [...] The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Aging or the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. [...] We construct survey weights to adjust the demographic characteristics of the Shift survey sample to match the demographic characteristics of service-sector workers in the American Community Survey (ACS) for the years 2008-2019. [...] We align the ACS sample with the Shift sample by selecting workers in the ACS who are employed in the same occupations and industries as the Shift sample.