With major portions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act just months away from taking effect, most large employers are not looking to circumvent coverage extension by reducing full-time workers' hours. 

That's the conclusion of a just-released study by Towers Watson & Co. The firm surveyed 113 companies with more than 1,000 employees — 98 percent of whom said they are not planning to try to alter the status of full-time employers to go below the extended coverage trigger point of 30 hours a week. 

Companies that don't offer health coverage to full-timers risk paying penalties of up to $2,000 per full-time worker who isn't covered. One strategy that has surfaced to defeat Obamacare's campaign to cover more workers is to reduce the hours of full-time employees below 30 hours a week. But large employers are apparently loathe to do so, the Towers Watson report revealed.