Hello everyone, I am Niharika, welcome back to a new lesson. well in today's lesson we
are gonna look at some terms or some phrases to talk about your work time or your work hours
Now, what is work time, now of course it's the period that you you end up spending
doing work and of course you are paid for it. So, if you go to work then you need to
know about your work time or your working hours, right? So, that's what we are gonna
learn in today's lesson, we are gonna look at some words and phrases that would help
you to talk about hours that you slog for, opps I mean you work for . So, let's get started
, the very first thing that we have here on the board is Starting and leaving time. So,
very common question that is asked when you end up meeting someone is - What are your
work hours? or What's your work time? So you gonna talk about the start time and you gonna
mention the time that you leave, okay. The time that you head back to home, okay. So,
you gonna say - For example - You start work at 8:00 AM and probably you are done by 5:00,
so you gonna say - well, I start around 8:00 and then I head back home by 5:00. So either
you say - I head back home by 5:00 or you can say - I leave at 5:00, or I am done by
5:00, so this is a very common way of telling about your working hours to someone that you
meet. The next one is 9-to-5, now 9-to-5 can be used in a positive way , of course in a
negative as well. Are you surprised? I am gonna tell you how. Well firstly, 9-to-5 , it
means it's just standard day time office job. Now in many countries, you know the working
hours differ, like it depends o the kind of job that you do, or it depends on the location
, or it also depends on your lifestyle choices, but then world wide 9-to- 5 is a standard
working hours for a regular day job. If you end up saying- Oh I just have a 9-to-5 job,
it means that you have a very nice and you don'y really have to worry too much , it's
the just the perfect 9-to-5 job, you don't do lot of over time, you don't have spend
a lot of hours doing something at work, so it's just a plain basic 9-to-5 job that you
have, but it is also used in a negative way, now probably for many people a 9-to-5 job
is not very exciting, so people would just say - I just have a regular 9-to-5 job. So
which means it's quite boring, okay. Yes I mean, it's just I have to make money , so
I work 9-to-5 , so not many people really enjoy doing their job and then when they say
this way that - It's just a regular 9-to-5 job, it is considered to be a little negative,
so that's the way you can use this phrase. The next one is Full Time, so when you go
online to look for jobs, you would always get an option that if you are looking for
a full time job, these are your options, if you are looking at a part-time job, these
are your options, so basically Full Time is wherein you work for 5 days and 8 hrs, so
it comes to around 40 hrs a week, okay. Well, world wide 40 - 44 hrs is considered to be
perfect for a full timers, but not in France, I envy the French, you know for a full timer,
it's just 35 hrs , isn't that awesome? So well any ways In most of the countries , It's
5 days and 8 hrs a day, so it's basically 40 hrs a week. So that's for a full timer
and for part-timers, it's working for less number of hours as compared to a full timer,
so part- time is few hours a week. So many a times part timers do not get a lot of money
as compared to full timers, well of course because you are not really slogging, it's
just you are working for few hours and it's perfect for students, the people who are studying
and doing a job, then a part-time job would be perfect, right? The next one is Over time,
I hate it, totally. Well Over time is, you know you wanna prove that yes you just are
very hard working, then you work for extra hours, so the people who work for extra hours,
now these extra hours are called as Over time. So, basically if you wanna impress your boss
or if you really love your job, then yes people do work for extra hours, many companies pay
for overtime and many companies don't. So, if your company does then, yes you can maybe
work overtime happily, if they don't it's up to you. So well any ways Over time is extra
hours that your put in, Okay. Then we have Time off in lieu, now the people who work
for extra hours, who put in extra hours , they can compensate by taking an off. So basically
if I have worked, or I have put in 4 hours , extra hours then probably I can take a half
a day off the next day. So basically you can take time off for the hours that you have
already worked, for the extra hours that you have already put in, so that's Time off in
lieu, If you wanna use it in a sentence then probably , you can say for example - Last
week you put in 8 extra hours and you would like to compensate it now, you would like
to go ahead and take a break for the next 8 hours, so you gonna tell your boss that
I need some time off in lieu. Si it means he or she would understand that you have already
put in extra hours and now you would like to compensate those hours that you worked
for by taking a break, right? Then the next one is Sabbatical , many people do get confused
, Sabbatical is very common term used for the people who take a break or who take a
period off from work. Now this break can be anything between 2 months to 2 years, so many
people do go on a sabbatical, either because they are a little sick , maybe they need a
period of rest or probably they wanna study, maybe higher studies or they wanna do a lot
of research, so there are many people who apply for sabbaticals, there are many sabbatical
policies depending on the company that you work for. So Sabbatical is nothing but a break
from work either for rest or for studies or some research purpose, okay. So, that's sabbatical.
And then the last one is Time sheet, now most of the companies do follow a time sheet, basically
it's a record of the number of hours that an employee puts in, so probably if you are
an employee of a company who do have a time sheet, so basically you enter the number of
hours that you work for and then it;s kind of calculated by the end of the month, or
in many countries it's also calculated by the end of week, so that's a time sheet, so
these are the common phrases , the common terms that are used to talk about work time
or work hours. Hope this lesson is helpful to you, I will be back with a new lesson soon,
till then you take care...