… Anyway…
My employer considers 32 hours a full-time, benefitted position, and I have to tell you, it’s awesome. Basically, 32 hours is full time, anything over 40 is overtime. We universally love it because it allows for people to go to school/college, people to have appointments or other single day commitments, people to go to kids events for school, whatever, and we can do so without taking time off and burning a vacation day. It also allows flexibility to make up the hours elsewhere if we so choose.
For me personally, I have a disability that means I get infusions every 4 weeks and I can have the day off to do it without having to take a vacation day or get disability accommodations. We have several people in the same boat, including a woman with cancer, and the ability to squeeze in her treatments around work without taking vacation days but still maintaining her status as full time to get insurance has been life changing for her. We also have a ton of college students who are self-sustaining and carry their own insurance.
Our employee retention rate is high. My department’s 5 year retention is 85%, and the line of people who want to work for us is loooooooooong.
The other added bonus is that we aren’t all clock watchers, calculating how close to 40 hours we are, and rushing to clock out when we get close. Our overtime costs are literally almost nothing.
I will say, though, we are paid a livable wage where we earn in 32 hours what is typically paid in 40. However, with high retention and tremendous employee loyalty, we save money in employment costs in the long run.