split shift
Gapped work schedule
A split shift is a work schedule divided into two or more separate periods in a single day, with a substantial unpaid break between them.
Common in restaurants, transit, and hospitality, where demand peaks at certain hours: She works a split shift—breakfast service, then back for dinner.
The arrangement suits business needs but can make for long, fragmented days.
- brokenDamaged beyond function
- work schedulePlanned job hours
- schedulePlan of timed events
- overnightSpanning evening to morning
- restCessation of activity
gap · dead time · hours · waitress · diner · lunch rush · bus · driver · labor · wage theft · exhausting · commute · afternoon · morning · evening · restaurant · hotel · housekeeping
- schedulingappointments, appointment, calendar, booking, bookings
- work hourswork hours, overtime, office hours, work schedules, workweek
- work schedulesovertime, nine to five, workday, workweek, half day
- work shiftsdogwatch, night watch, night duty
- shifts
- restaurant lingoeighty-six, in the weeds, on the fly, all day, heard
split shiftfixed schedule
Unchanging plan of times
regular hours · nine-to-five · banker's hours · office hours
split, shift, splits, splitting, splitter, shifts, shifted, shifting, shifter