staggered hours

plural noun

1. a system of working in which the employees of an organization do not all arrive and leave at the same time, but have large periods of overlap

Example Sentences

As Alex Armlovich wrote of New York City earlier this year, “Imagine for a moment that we went back in time to 2019 and told the city’s leaders — beset with housing scarcity, a crowded transit system and extreme traffic congestion — that we would soon have technology that allows staggered hours and remote work to shrink rush hour travel by, say, 20%. Such a technology would have been welcomed with open arms.”

From Slate

It said that flexible working did not just mean working from home but also included job-sharing, flexitime or staggered hours.

From BBC

Protections might include things such as a private work space that is physically isolated from co-workers, staggered hours to reduce exposure to other people or a work-from-home arrangement.

From Scientific American

Many schools staggered hours for parents to drop off and pick up their children, and have adjusted lunch periods to lessen crowding.

From New York Times

By July, new government orders allowed Natron — deemed an essential business because it served cellphone networks — to get some engineers back into the lab, with staggered hours.

From New York Times