duty hours
Assigned service time
Duty hours are the scheduled time during which someone is required to be at work or on call.
The term appears most often in military and medical contexts, where it may be strictly regulated: Residents are limited to eighty duty hours per week.
Outside duty hours, personnel are off duty and free from work obligations.
- shiftMovement or work period
- double shiftTwo work periods consecutively
- split shiftWorkday with long gap
- night shiftOvernight work period
- overtimeWork beyond scheduled hours
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- work hoursovertime, work schedules, shifts, shift work, shift schedule
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work obligation vs. personal freedom
duty hourspersonal time
Hours for oneself
free time · leisure time · time off · off time · downtime
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