working time

On-the-clock period

Working time is the hours during which someone is engaged in paid employment or official duties.

The term appears most often in legal and policy contexts, distinguishing time on the job from breaks, commutes, and personal hours: EU directives limit working time to 48 hours per week.

Working time regulations govern overtime, rest periods, and maximum hours.

schedule

timetable

Arranged list of events

shift · rotation · flextime · compressed · staggered · split · remote · hybrid · nine-to-five · appointment

labor

employment

Paid occupation status

  • wagesPayment for work
  • hourlyOnce each sixty minutes
  • salaryFixed periodic employment payment

compensation · union · collective · bargaining · benefits · workforce · regulation · legislation · directive · rights

duration

hours

Sixty-minute spans

period · span · length · interval · session · workweek · billable · logged · tracked · clocked

flexibility

flexible

Able to bend freely

annualized · banked · autonomy · self-directed · asynchronous · boundaries · availability · on-call · crunch

productivity

efficiency

Productive without waste

task · optimization · utilization · deadlines · deliverables · throughput · capacity · downtime · idle · active

overtime

extra

Additional, beyond necessary

additional · premium · compensatory · unpaid · mandatory · voluntary · accrued · banked · capped · unlimited

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activity type

working timeleisure time

Unscheduled waking hours

free time · time off · personal time · downtime · recreation time

employment status

working timevacation time

Allotted leave from employment

unemployment · retirement · sabbatical · idle time · downtime

Family

time, worker, working, works, worked, workday, timely, workable, untimely

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