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In general, part-time employees work fewer cumulative hours than full-time employees. However, this may change in a busy week or season, such as over the holidays. Part-time employees typically ...

These are on a part-time, full-time or flexible-hours basis. Which basis is used usually depends on a mixture of business requirements and the requirements of employees. Full time usually refers ...

Instead of assigning employees too many hours, large corporations routinely give them too few, hiring multiple part-time staff in place of one full-time worker. These precarious, contingent workers ...

Most of that increase—857,000 workers—was driven by people who worked part time by choice, not because they were unable to find full-time work or their hours were cut.