Dr. Jeremy Reynolds is Professor of Sociology at Purdue. He studies how workplaces contribute to inequality, especially inequalities in time sovereignty and their consequences. The modern labor market produces both over-employment and under-employment, schedules that are unstable and those that are inflexible, and jobs that allow or prohibit working remotely. Workers also vary greatly in their ability to predict their work hours. Schedules that do not fit workers’ needs can disrupt life outside of work, create financial problems, and lower well-being. Dr. Reynolds is interested in all these issues.

He is currently working on a project about work schedules and well-being among people who were active on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk platform in early 2020. The project examines how they combined gig work and other forms of work in into an overall work schedule and the extent to which they got the schedules they needed both before and after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S.

Dr. Reynolds is a former winner of the Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award for Work-Family research, and his work has been supported by funding from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. His research has appeared in leading journals including American Sociological Review, Social Forces, Work and Occupations, Journal of Marriage and Family, and Journal of Family Issues.