Working Hours

The working week is based off the number of hours per day or per week that an employee is expected to fulfil in the standard working days of Monday to Friday. The workload for a part-time employee is determined as a percentage of the normal working time.

The daily hours includes 2 tea/coffee breaks, generally 10mins each. Lunch break (30-60mins) is not included in the daily hours.

See also: Changing your working hours

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Managing Working Hours

• Workload expectations are loaded into Jira and assigned to each employee
  • Workload schemes for part-time employees are set up to match their weekly preference (e.g. if at 80% not working on a Friday, or spreading it across the week)
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See also: Working in a globally distributed team

Weekend Work

Saturday and Sunday are the weekend, and they are your weekend. As we allow for a flexible working schedule under the Flexitime concept, we can’t really stop anyone from working on the weekend if they feel inspired. However, we consider all weekend work to be voluntary by default, and thus not eligible for additional weekend compensation. Any hours worked would be included in the standard Flexitime tracking.

There are the rare occasions when some employees are requested to work on a weekend, if the work cannot be executed during normal Monday to Friday hours. When this is the case, the request needs to be in writing and pre-approved in order to get compensated accordingly.

This Weekend Work compensation is given back at 1.5x the hours logged.

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We don’t want you to work weekends

Weekends are our private time, and as the name suggests, the working week has ended. With the exception of on-call work, and very very rare exceptions, you will not be asked to work weekends.

If you feel you HAVE to work weekends due to having so much to do, then the issue may be your workload, and on us as a company to solve, rather than you just needing to battle through and give up your own time. Speak up if this is the case, but please don’t work weekends until specifically asked to, or on-call.

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Requesting weekend work

• If you are required to work on a weekend, please send an email to your lead, (or vice versa) and cc [email protected]

  • Please indicate why this work needs to happen on the weekend and the estimated time that will be needed
  • Leads are to acknowledge and approve this prior to the weekend in question

• Log the time to the relevant ticket(s) in Jira

  • The time actually spent will go towards your general Flexitime balance
  • BizOps will load the additional TOIL supplement into BambooHR for you, after the fact

  The onus is on each employee to ensure that the request is sent through and approved, if you expect to get the weekend work compensation.

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Flexible working hours and availability