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plages de travail

English translation: fixed time slots; core time

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French term or phrase:plages de travail
English translation:fixed time slots; core time
Entered by: Robin Ward

18:13 Feb 15, 2013
French to English translations [PRO]
Bus/Financial - Human Resources
French term or phrase: plages de travail
In a questionnaire dealing with quality and conditions of working life:

Avez-vous un horaire de travail mobile (vous décidez vous-même du moment où vous commencez et terminez votre travail tout en respectant éventuellement certaines plages de travail quotidiennes)?

Is this something along the lines of core time, the period when all employees who have flexible working hours have to be at the workplace?
Robin Ward
Germany
Local time: 00:31
fixed time slots
Explanation:
It is referring to the hours between which employees on flexible hours can work. For example you may have to work eight hours a day but can do this between 8am and 8pm so you may choose to work 8am to 4pm or midday to 8pm or something in between. The 8am to 8pm slot is the plage de travail.
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Matt Stewart
Local time: 00:31
Grading comment
Sounds fine to me, along with core time. Thanks a lot!
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
4 +2fixed time slots
Matt Stewart
4fixed time possibilities
Rachel Salter


Discussion entries: 3





  

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8 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
fixed time slots


Explanation:
It is referring to the hours between which employees on flexible hours can work. For example you may have to work eight hours a day but can do this between 8am and 8pm so you may choose to work 8am to 4pm or midday to 8pm or something in between. The 8am to 8pm slot is the plage de travail.

Matt Stewart
Local time: 00:31
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 8
Grading comment
Sounds fine to me, along with core time. Thanks a lot!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  writeaway: slot is the standard translation for plage. someone even agreed with your suggestion in the d box
15 hrs
agree  Yvonne Gallagher: or core time
16 hrs
neutral  Tony M: There is soemthing slightly contradictory between your definition of 'the wide time slot within you must fit your hours' and the opposite notion of the 'core time' when everyone must be there. Not sure which is intended here, but they seem to me different
19 days
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
fixed time possibilities


Explanation:
I would say fixed time possibilities because the 'plages' suggests a zone of possibility which each worker then adapts to fit his own schedule

Rachel Salter
Local time: 00:31
Native speaker of: English
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