reduced hours
Cut back schedule
Reduced hours refers to a work schedule with fewer hours than the standard full-time arrangement.
Employees may work reduced hours voluntarily for work-life balance, or employers may impose them during slow periods to avoid layoffs.
She negotiated reduced hours after returning from maternity leave.
The term often appears in discussions of flexible work arrangements, part-time transitions, or economic downturns when companies cut back operations.
- furloughGranted absence from work
- part-timeLimited work schedule
- four-day weekSchedule with Friday off
- skeleton crewMinimum workers needed
- job sharingDividing one role between workers
downsizing · scaled back · flexible scheduling · seasonal work · cost-cutting · tight budget · shift work · underemployment · understaffed · work-life balance · time off · budget constraints · cutback · casual · remote work · layoff · pink slip · paycheck
- business hoursopening time, opening times, closing time, closing times
- work hoursovertime, work schedules, shifts, shift work, shift schedule
- semi-retirement activitiespart-time work, consulting, mentoring, advisory roles, flexible schedule
- work arrangementsjob sharing, part-time, part-time work, full-time, remote work
- workplace rightsemployment rights, workplace rights, job protection, job security, workplace safety
- unemploymentunemployment, unemployed, jobless, joblessness, unemployment rate
reduced hoursfull-time
Complete weekly hours
regular hours · extended hours · long hours · overtime · maximum hours
reduced hoursoverwork
Toil to exhaustion
mandatory overtime · crunch time · around-the-clock · double shifts · around the clock