Paying People Correctly: Work Hours, Breaks and Decimal Time
Clock-in to payslip in plain steps — net hours after unpaid breaks, overnight shifts and the minutes-to-decimal conversion payroll expects.
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Plain-English guides to time management, payroll calculation and the curious science of time are on the way. Until each one is published, its card takes you straight to the calculator that solves the problem today.
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Paying People Correctly: Work Hours, Breaks and Decimal Time
Our first guide walks from clock-in to payslip: working out net hours after unpaid breaks, handling shifts that run past midnight, converting minutes to decimal hours and checking overtime. While it is being written, the Work Hours Calculator already does every one of those steps for you.
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Time Blocking That Survives a Real Workday
Plan the day in blocks, log what actually happened, and compare the two to see where your hours really go.
UTC, GMT and Daylight Saving Time Without the Headache
Why offsets change twice a year, how to line up meetings across continents, and the date-line moments that catch people out.
Decimal Hours vs Hours and Minutes: Which to Use When
Why 7.30 is not seven and a half hours, when to switch formats, and a reference table for every quarter hour.
Time Arithmetic Tricks: Adding, Subtracting and Multiplying Time
Base-60 carrying explained with worked examples, from summing shifts to multiplying a task time across a batch.
Tracking Staff Hours Without Paid Software
A simple weekly time card routine, how to flag overtime, and the records worth keeping in case of a pay query.
Teaching Elapsed Time with Number Lines and Clocks
Classroom-friendly ways to explain elapsed time, crossing the hour and crossing midnight — with examples pupils can check themselves.
A Freelancer's System for Honest Time Billing
Logging billable hours per client, rounding rules such as 6-minute increments, and presenting a clear timesheet with the invoice.
Why Years Seem to Pass Faster as We Get Older
What researchers have proposed about time perception and ageing — and what counting your life in days does to that feeling.