... in which the contextual performance and knowledge intensity play a major role. The labour market in Europe has seen a steady growth in part‐time work. The Netherlands has even been called the first part‐time economy in the world (Freeman, 1998 ; Visser, 2000). The impressive growth of employment...

...Denise Skinner Part‐time work has been the major area of employment growth during the last decade and now forms almost one‐quarter of total employment in the UK. Within the literature it is argued that a key aspect of the growth of part‐time work is its role in enabling an organisation to meet...

... trained staff from the organisation. Part-time Working Part-time work in the UK as a percentage of the workforce fell between 1986 and 1987 from 23 to 21 per cent. The long-term trend continues a pattern of increasing parttime working since 1979 [LFS 1987][11]. Employees in parttime employment in December...