Flex Time Is Good for your Health

While her name sounds like it should belong to the latest character on Sex and the City, Tara Parker-Pope is actually the best thing to happen to the New York Times in a very long time.  The very successful (popular) health blogger reports in a recent entry that when researchers at Wake Forest University talked to 3,200 workers at a major pharmaceutical company about their health habits, they found that those who had job flexibility were more likely to engage in healthful behaviors. The flex timers also exercised more, attended more
employer-sponsored health classes, and were more likely than
those with more regimented routines to describe themselves as living a
healthful lifestyle. Geezer has only one question: If flex time is good for your health, shouldn’t retirement be even better?  Read more from Tara Parker-Pope.