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A part-time job is a form of employment that carries fewer hours per week than a full-time job. Workers are commonly considered to be part-time if they work fewer than 30 hours per week. [2] Their hours of work may be organised in shifts. The shifts are often rotational.
Part-time may refer to: Part-time job, a job that has fewer hours a week than a full-time job; Part-time student, a student, usually in higher education, who takes fewer course credits than a full-time student; Part Time (band), an American pop band; Part Time (album), a live album by James Blood Ulmer
A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms, sometimes simply as lists of synonyms and antonyms.
Tutoring is a great part-time job, whether your talent is teaching a language, music or helping someone get ahead with math, science or English.
Similarly, Brazil enforces full-time employment regulations to part-time employment and outsourcing. In some countries, including Brazil, there is a wage gap between temporary and permanent workers, but this is due to violations of legislation that specify equal wage determination. [13]
Fractional work [3] is a newer term that refers to working either part-time or full-time, but not in a traditional job with a single employer. Instead, fractional workers work for multiple clients or employers, usually remotely, and may offer specialized expertise.
A side job can be a full-time job, part-time contract, or freelance work, and a person can hold more than one side job. [2] Side jobs gained in popularity in the U.S. because of wage stagnation and low wage growth that has not kept up with the rise in cost of living, with nearly a third of people with side jobs requiring them to pay expenses. [3]
Underemployment is a problem particularly in developing countries, where the unemployment rate is often quite low, as most workers are doing subsistence work or occasional part-time jobs. In 2011, the global average of full-time workers per adult population was only 26%, compared to 30–52% in developed countries and 5–20% in most of Africa.