| According to a July report from the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), the number of full-time wage and salary workers age 16 and older on flexible schedules dropped from 29 million in May 2001 to 27.4 million in 2004.
Industries with the most workers on flexible schedules include information and financial, professional and business services.
“People thought (flexibility) would keep escalating with more dual earners and the younger generation,” says Lonnie Golden, an associate professor of economics and labor studies at Pennsylvania State University College. “The fact (that) it hasn't is pretty surprising.”
A 2005 Society for Human Resources Management study supports the DOL figures, as it found fewer companies offering flex time: 64 percent in 2002 vs. 56 percent in 2005. | 
