GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Detailed explanation-1: -In general, employers tend to regard full-time employment as anywhere between 30 and 50 hours per week, with 40 hours being the standard. Those companies that have 50-hour work weeks usually apply it to salaried (exempt) employees only.

Detailed explanation-2: -To be classified as a full-time employee, you have to work 38 or more hours per week. 38 divided by five equals 7.6 hours per day. This equates to 7 hours and 36 minutes.

Detailed explanation-3: -In the United States, the IRS classifies any employee who works an average of 32 to 40 hours per week or 130 hours per month as full-time. This maximum amount began in 1938 when Congress passed the Fair Labor Standards Act, which required employers to pay overtime to all employees who worked more than 44 hours a week.

Detailed explanation-4: -Most employees will work a fairly standardized 7.5 or 8 hour business day schedule. For example, many employees work a schedule similar to 8:30am-5pm with an hour for lunch (7.5 hour day), 8am-4pm with a half hour lunch (7.5 hour day), or 6am-2:30pm with a half hour lunch (8 hour day).

Detailed explanation-5: -Somewhat longer than normal hours four days per week and a half day on the fifth day. For a thirty-seven and a half (37.5) hour work week, 8.5 hours Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday.