To think 32.5 hours is full time?

[tillyandmolly]

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?)

Your in work 35 hours a week. I'd def call it full time.

It's part time. I would love those hours.

37.5h is full time in my job. 7.5x5 30 mins unpaid lunch

It's almost full time isn't it? But it's not full time, sorry OP.

I wouldn't split gains with a friend if they are in work just 5 hours less than I am!

32 is part time where I work (I was on a 32hr contract)
40 is FT

It's full time according to the ONS, if I recall correctly. Their stats count anything over 30 hours as full time. And I reckon that's as close as you'll get to an official definition of full time!

Full time is anything from 35 to 40 hours working and lunch on top. You are part time

it doesn’t matter what peopke on here consider full or part time. It’s in relation to what your place of work considers full time and therefore if you work less than that you are part time. My company considers 35 hours to be full time, I work 28 hours a week so therefore o get paid 28/35 of a full time salary, it is irrelevant if Sue on mumsnet says 40 hours is full time or 32 hours is full time because you are paid in relation to what your company considers full time.

I assume people work at least 35hrs a week if they say they work FT.

But having said that, I think 30hrs is plenty and support the movement for the 4 day working week which would make FT as we know it to then be about 30hrs. But that would require a huge shift in practice and mentality and doesn't resemble where we are right now.

So right now, no, 32.5hrs definitely isn't full time, and I can imagine people working 40hrs FT could feel put out by you claiming that it is.

I’ve always worked in the public and charity sectors with 35 hours being full time, which seems civilised. I now work 30 hours a week which is the right balance for me with older primary/younger secondary children, especially as it’s hybrid with only two days a week in the office. I work every day, in theory 7 hours on a couple of days and shorter elsewhere, but in practice it usually works out as 6-6.5 hours a day. It means I’m generally working in core hours for meetings etc but it gives me that bit of flexibility with school pick ups etc on days we don’t have after school childcare. Plus any extra time I work I can take back as flexi leave. Works for me!

If you said 32.5 hours I'd think of that as part time, but if you said you had 7 hour shifts 5 days a week I'd think it was basically full time. You could always phrase it as you work 0.8 or 0.9fte. Depending on your commute and the nature of your work that 1 hour less a day could make a real difference to some people's lives, get chores and errands run people who work longer shifts have to leave for the weekend.

As @thegrain said "Lunch isn't work"....
Why are people mentioning lunch breaks and stipulating they don't get paid for them....do you know why? Because lunch isn't work!
It's not usual to be paid for your lunch break. I can't remember a time it ever was though I'm not 100 though, so it might have been different years ago.
I'm not saying it doesn't exist, but who gets paid for their lunch break? Anyone?

If it's over 30 hours and the shifts offered for your role add up to 32.5 in their standard working week, I'd say you are full time, or certainly near as damnit.

I work 4 days a week, but actually do more hours (34) and definitely feel part time - because I have a whole day off in the week to do whatever I want.

6-1 or 1-8 is quite a decent shift pattern though, you get a reasonable chunk of day time every day, though if you have a long commute I can see the 6am start would get very tiring.

35 hours is full time where I am. Some do 40 though. 32.5 I’d class as part time.

Re the office workers and their hour and a half break - is it an hour for lunch and half an hour for other breaks during the day?

In my experience, giving someone an hour and a half for lunch as a routine entitlement is quite unusual for a regular office job.

If so, is it the case that the hour-long lunches are unpaid, but the extra half an hour breaks are paid? That used to be the case when I worked in retail - we had an hour unpaid for lunch and then two 15-minute breaks, both paid. That was within a 9am - 5.30pm work pattern which gave a 37.5 hour "working" week - ie/ hours at work minus the unpaid lunch hour but including the paid tea breaks.

Every job I've ever had has classed 35 hours per week as full-time so I thought that was the norm - clearly not!

Having read through this thread, I'm feeling very grateful for my 8:30am - 4:30pm job with an hour (unpaid) lunch and 2 x 10 minutes (paid) breaks.

At my work 35 hours working is full time. That’s 40 hours at work. 32.5 is part time. No shame in being part time though!

No it’s the equivalent of 4 days

I'd say anything over 30 hours isn't part time, a lot of survey questions I've come across seem to have over/under 30 hours as options. Also, your friends are being dicks to bring this up, individual house what hours/job you do. Some roles would require excessive hours, some don't, you pick your life.

With my 35 hours, which is standard for everyone in organisation, we can take unpaid break of anything between 20 minutes and two hours.

So that does make my working day really nice and short as I usually take 20 or 30 minutes.

I'd consider it full time - you work 5 days and full days. For context - a full time teacher is paid for 32.4 hours per week. Yes, they work a lot more hours than this but this is what is considered full time.

35-40 hours is full-time.

35 hours is 9am to 5pm with 1 hour lunch.

I work 9.30 until 4pm and consider it to be pretty much full time. Its 32 hours a week so not far off.

I used to be part time at 25 hours a week

Part time but not part time enough to actually benefit from being part time.

35 hours in my place is full time. 9-5 Monday to Friday with an unpaid hours lunch. 35 is the maximum we offer as contracted hours. If your hours are considered full time by your employer and your contract is for full time hours then you are full time.