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"Growing policy interest in work life balance and employer's desires for a flexible workforce are seen as driving factors in the growing amount of non-standard work. In this article, using UK LFS, Census, and OECD data, non-standard work within the UK, G7, and Australia, whether from home, part-time, temporary, or shift work, is discussed. The prevalence of and reasons for various forms of non-standard work are presented, and the experience of women in the labour market is discussed as being marginalised by the ‘standard' definition. In 1901 women were more likely than men to work from home but in 2003 the situation was reversed, and 14 per cent of men worked from home compared with 8 per cent of women. Almost one-quarter of men working part-time in 2003 said that they did so because they could afford not to work full-time, whereas 41 per cent of women working part-time wanted to spend more time with the family. Although temporary employment accounts for roughly the same proportion of those in employment in 2003 as in 1993 the proportion who could not find a full-time job decreased 15 percentage points over the decade.This article is the first in a series looking at working time arrangements over the coming months."