spreadover

plural spreadovers

1. countableuncountableemploymentThe variable arrangement of duties and breaks within overall work periods of fixed duration.

   The eight-hour day spreadover was imposed on the Scottish miners in December of last year following upon the most open and flagrant betrayal by the Miners' Federation […]

   1931, W. Gallacher, “The Scottish Miner's Strike”, in The Communist Review, volume 3, page 345

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   The total duration from sign-on to sign-off is called the spreadover of a shift. Many of the scheduling rules are dependent on ranges of spreadover lengths. Often, scheduling methods would simply cost a shift by its spreadover since actual wage cost is usually proportional to spreadover.

   2004, Joseph Y-T. Leung, Handbook of Scheduling