While Americans may favor flexible schedules and more time offfor child care and vacation, surprisingly few of them are ready toditch the 9-to-5 completely.

A survey conducted by consulting giant Deloitte shows the majority of Americans whohave worked as independent contractors do notwant to repeat the experience of working without an employer orconsistent set of colleagues.

Specifically, the poll of 4,000 employees found that 67 percentof those who worked as contractors say they did not want to returnto that type of work. Just under half of those who worked ascontractors say they weresatisfied with the experience.

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