Timeline for Is the term "man hours" appropriate for the workplace, and if not, how do I get my coworkers to use a more neutral term?
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| Mar 3, 2017 at 12:16 | comment | added | user3644640 | @DmitryGrigoryev I agree, month is not used often. Although I do know many cases where the contracts are done on a resolution of a month. In a such case it makes sense to talk about work months. The word work seems in the example you give a redundant word, if there is no seasonality where there are indeed the months during which work is made only on-season. | |
| Mar 3, 2017 at 11:04 | comment | added | Dmitry Grigoryev | If someone told me a project requires 12 work months, I would be convinced it cannot be done before next year. 12 man-months (or person-months, worker-months etc.) clearly imply the time has to be divided by the number of people on the team. | |
| Mar 2, 2017 at 13:57 | comment | added | Zibbobz | There are a few more advantages to "Work Hours" than any other term - same number of syllables, completely neutral, emphasizes the work done over the individual doing it, and already a common term in several industries (I rarely actually hear anyone call it 'man hours' outside of engineering). | |
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| Mar 2, 2017 at 7:48 | comment | added | user3644640 | True, working hour removed from the answer. Work hour I have seen in the same use as a man hour. | |
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| Mar 2, 2017 at 7:44 | comment | added | user44108 | Man-hours are different to working-hours. A man hour is how much work can be done by one person in one hour - a team of 10 people can perform 80 man-hours of work in a day. Working hours means the time period of the working day (9am-5pm would be 8 working hours, regardless of how many people are working). | |
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