The teen number includes both full-time students looking for full- or part-time work, and teens who are out of school and job hunting.
One study found that two-thirds of American women had at some point switched from full-time work to part-time or flexible time to balance work and family.
Although stay-at-home fathers grab the headlines, this movement includes full time, part-time and work-from-home fathers, it includes gay and straight dads, and single, married and divorced dads.
FORBES: Do Men Need to Act Like Women to Succeed as Fathers?
At more than 60 years old, ManpowerGroup is one of the oldest and largest staffing firms in the country, handling both part-time and full-time work.
If you've been looking only for a full-time job, consider broadening your search to contract and part-time work.
"The recent rise in job levels is being driven by self-employed, part-time and temporary jobs, rather than the full-time, permanent work that many people want and need, " said Frances O'Grady, secretary general of the TUC.
In a healthy recovery, the jobless rate declines as more workers collecting unemployment checks find full or part-time work and get off the government dole.
FORBES: Markets Rewind: Bad Jobs Report Flashes Bernanke The Bat Signal - Forbes
Today, more than 1, 700 full and part-time employees at Orion are hard at work producing the brand new Chevy Sonic.
WHITEHOUSE: President Obama and President Lee on the KORUS FTA
This includes landing part-time or summer work while you actively network and look for a full-time spot.
New graduates are being met with a grim welcome to the job market, and many retirees are going back to work part- or full-time.
FORBES: The Emotional Cost of a Bad Economy: How to Recover Health and Happiness
But a revealing New York Times story today describes how startups are increasingly eschewing hiring, instead bringing on contract employees and part-timers to perform the work previously handled by full-time employees.
For example, if there are two well qualified candidates for a job who each have disabilities and can only work part time and a manager has only one full-time opening, does that manager have the authority to make a decision to create two part-time positions in lieu of the one full-time position so that the two people with the disabilities can share the job?
To do all this work, TARIS employs 15 full time people and five part-timers.
FORBES: TARIS Biomedical Keeps Delivering Drugs Direct-to-the-Bladder
For example, initially 47 percent of respondents knew that the unemployment rate is 14.7 percent when those who had given up looking for work and those who have part-time jobs but want full-time positions are included.
FORBES: Demography Isn't Destiny When Voters Are Economically Informed
Some employees work part time, and some part-timers can put in full-time hours during peak times for the company.
FORBES: IRS To Employers: Pay ObamaCare 'Shared Responsibility' Or Else
The prospect of choosing between multiple job offers may seem unlikely these days, given all the talk of joblessness and the real unemployment rate of 15.1% (counting people who have given up looking for work, and those working part-time who wish they had full-time jobs).
Most mothers do not work full-time anyway (though the proportion who do is growing), and their part-time jobs are ill-rewarded.
应用推荐