spreadover

The variable arrangement of duties and breaks within overall work periods of fixed duration.

Noun

  1. The variable arrangement of duties and breaks within overall work periods of fixed duration.
    • The eight-hour day spreadover was imposed on the Scottish miners in December of last year following upon the most open and flagrant betrayal by the Miners' Federation […] - 1931, W. Gallacher, “The Scottish Miner's...
    • The total duration from sign-on to sign-off is called the spreadover of a shift. Many of the scheduling rules are dependent on ranges of spreadover lengths. Often, scheduling methods would simply cost a shift by its...

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