They exist. I don't have any openings but I run a small company (30 FTEs). We classify 30 hours per week as full time with benefits. Insurance benefits are the same as those working 40 hours. Leave is earned on a prorated basis. We have a great deal of success with those jobs or even part time jobs that have some real flexibility but don't have benefits (obviously that doesn't help you). Especially in this unemployment environment the thing that we can offer that not everyone will is that sort of flexibility. Oh yeah and shorts/jeans when the work doesn't require otherwise. (People love that for some reason). We consistently hire more qualified and better workers than we should be able to for the work (general office work) because we work with people like that. We want a consistent work schedule week to week but typically the work doesn't matter when that is in a given week so we have flexibility. Some work 9-2 every day during school year so they can drop kids off and pick them up after school. Others have worked three 10 hour days to match their spouses off days during the summer so they don't have daycare. It's not the pipe dream some people would have you believe but those jobs do exist.
