Break Types

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Everyone deserves a break from time to time, including your employees. There are various break types you can use in a schedule. In this article, we explain how to use them.

Breaks are part of schedules. If you have not done so yet, check out the following article for a general explanation of schedules in TimeMoto Cloud:

The Schedule page

Fixed Break Time

Using a fixed break time, you can schedule fixed break times in a schedule. You can select per day of the week which break times to include. Enter the start and end time of your break.

You want to include a break in your schedule. From Monday until Friday, employees should have a break from 12:00 until 12:30. You select Monday until Friday, and enter 12:00 as the start time and 12:30 as the end time.

Tick the box next to a row to activate it. This way, you can add additional break times. This is useful if you want to include multiple breaks on one day or different breaks per day.

You can also have a break automatically deducted from worked time. If you enable this option, the duration of the break is automatically deducted. An employee does not have to clock that break. 

By default, breaks are considered unpaid time. If breaks are paid or included in your schedule's work time, activate "Paid break". 

Conditionally Deducted Breaks

Conditionally deducted breaks are, as the name implies, deducted from the worked time under certain conditions. You can indicate how much break time is automatically deducted after how many hours of uninterrupted work.

Tick the boxes in front of a row to add an additional break. If you have multiple automatic breaks, only the longest applicable work time is used.

Let's assume you have a schedule with the following conditional breaks:

• 30 minutes after 6 hours
• 45 minutes after 8 hours

An employee using this schedule works 6 hours. This means that 30 minutes of break time are deducted, giving an effective worked time of 5:30 hours. 

Another employee works 9 hours. This means that 45 (not 75) minutes are deducted from. The employee has thus effectively worked 8:15 hours.

Note: Conditionally deducted breaks are not deducted from the scheduled shift time, but only from completed working time! If you select this break type, it does not influence the planned total of the schedule's working time!

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