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To think 32.5 hours is full time?

351 replies

tillyandmolly · 31/03/2023 20:34

I'm at work 35 hours a week (5 x 7 hour shifts) with a 30 minute break, so technically it's 32.5. AIBU to think this is full time work?

Was out with some of my mum friends the other night and was straight up told how "it must be quite nice to have part time work even though the DC are in secondary school". My DC are in secondary school yes and I'm working full time because of that? (Not implying people have to of course, but it's full time surely?)

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RuthW · 31/03/2023 20:58

Full time is classed as over 30 hours

SmallbutMighty1 · 31/03/2023 20:59

Teachers are paid for 32.5. I'd certainly call that a full time job.

But guess how many of them actually work 32.5... 🫠

FlorentinePaper · 31/03/2023 20:59

Part time. Just because you do five days doesn't mean that is full time.

poshme · 31/03/2023 20:59

OP I do 35 hours and that's classed as part time.
FT is 37.5

35 feels like full time.

x2boys · 31/03/2023 21:00

Babyroobs · 31/03/2023 20:58

No where near ! Unless we are going to a four day week for all !

Yeah but not everyone works 9-5, shift work??

TheObstinateHeadstrongGirl · 31/03/2023 21:00

YABU.
Its a whole day less than full time.

Danikm151 · 31/03/2023 21:00

Full time is considered to be anything over 30 hours per week.

hollypolly12 · 31/03/2023 21:01

You work pretty much a full shift 5 days a week? You have a perk of doing an hour less than most but I certainly wouldn't call it part time.
I work 14.5 hrs pw. That's part time 😂

Galliano · 31/03/2023 21:01

My full time contract is for 35 hrs. There’s no option for me to request 37.5 hrs or 40 hrs for more pay just because other employers contract full time workers for more hours. If your employer sets a full time working week at 32.5 hrs then you’re full time. If other workers with your employer are contracted for more hours than you then you are key time/part time by the definitions in your workplace.

lljkk · 31/03/2023 21:01

I perceive the British don't have a definition. In my culture it's 40 hours net of meal breaks.

Anycolouryoulike · 31/03/2023 21:01

I'd consider it full time. I work the same hours and would say I work full time.

Womencanlift · 31/03/2023 21:02

I have worked in places where 35 hours is classed as 1 FTE, others where it’s 37.5 hours but nothing less than 35

When calculating resourcing your hours would be classed as 0.92 FTE in my current place of work

JoshLymanIsHotterThanSam · 31/03/2023 21:03

I do 30 hours so part time. But when I tell people I say I’m in that awkward bit between part time and full time-because I feel I am. When you say part time people assume you are doing 25 hours or less. But I know I’m not full time because I work 4 days a week.

Anycolouryoulike · 31/03/2023 21:03

Babyroobs · 31/03/2023 20:58

No where near ! Unless we are going to a four day week for all !

No where near? What do you consider full time then?

WantToBeHappyAndHealthy · 31/03/2023 21:03

I know what you mean, op.

I used to work 30 hours over 5 days, so 6 hours a day, classed as part-time.

I fucking hated it, it didn't feel like part time at all because I was in mon-fri. I also didn't get a break because legally, the company only has to offer it if you work over 6 hours. And the company were shitbags 🖕.

I actually begged them to do 4 full days instead of 5 half days because it was making me mentally unwell.

They wouldn't change it for me after months of asking, so I got a new job doing 40 hours over 4 days and life is so much better now just having that one day off.

It actually feels more like part time more than the 30 hour job! So I completely get where you're coming from.

Fluckinghell · 31/03/2023 21:03

BecauseTheOnlyWayIsUp · 31/03/2023 20:38

36 hours is full time at my company (large recruiter at 5000+ employees)

Ffs 🙄

America12 · 31/03/2023 21:03

It's part time. Full time is 37.5?

berksandbeyond · 31/03/2023 21:04

Danikm151 · 31/03/2023 21:00

Full time is considered to be anything over 30 hours per week.

Considered by who?

CantFindTheBeat · 31/03/2023 21:04

tillyandmolly · 31/03/2023 20:47

Interesting! As some have said... really doesn't feel part time because I'm literally out 5/7 days and with travelling to and from work, etc. it just simply feels like full time Grin but obviously isn't.

But yeah, seems strange to specifically say "part time" to me like that, if she had simply said it's nice hours or whatever, wouldn't have bat much of an eyelid)

I'd agree that was a bitchy comment, OP.

Like you say, 'nice hours' would have sufficed.

It's not as if you have a lot of time to go on expeditions and meditate on your massive non-working hour per day, is it.

Frumpylumpyvixen · 31/03/2023 21:04

168 hours is full time.

In other words were all part time really and need to get our heads around it.

Some people that work fewer hours than me are way more productive, some people that work more than me are less productive. The opposite of both is true.

Within the team of 200 I lead, I would 4 or 5 are better than they think they are, the rest are all deluded, including me.

Cosmos123 · 31/03/2023 21:05

If your contract states full.time hours are 35 hour then it is.

Everyone has different contracts
I'm also on a 35 hour full time contract.

Yea · 31/03/2023 21:05

I work 32 hours a week and it is counted as full time. My employer operates a 4 day work week.

SpecialControlGroup · 31/03/2023 21:05

I wouldn't consider that full time I'm afraid, full time is usually 37-40 hours

YerAWizardHarry · 31/03/2023 21:05

bonkersbirdie · 31/03/2023 20:42

Full time teaching staff across the entire country are contracted to work 32.5 hours and that is definitely not a part time job.

I’m a teacher and our contract hours are 35hrs a week…

Lunde · 31/03/2023 21:05

Years ago I used to examine payroll records for a major UK Government department that used to restrict its industrial grade employees in specific female dominated sections to 39.5 hours per week (not including breaks) so it could declare them "part time" (less than 40) and not pay full NI and pension contributions for them