labor hours
Employee time spent
Labor hours are units measuring work time, typically the total hours employees spend on a task, project, or during a pay period.
The term appears in business planning, construction estimates, and payroll contexts: The renovation will require 500 labor hours.
Labor hours help calculate costs, productivity, and staffing needs.
Also written as labor-hours or labour hours (British).
- workEffort toward a goal
- nine to fiveStandard workday timeframe
- punch the clockRecord shift start time
- overtimeWork beyond scheduled hours
- time and a halfFifty percent wage bonus
crunch time · wages · payroll · timesheet · shift · clock · punch · on the clock · billable · productivity · sweat · sweat equity · hard day's work · toil · workforce · blue collar · manhours · scheduling
- resourcesresources, money, natural resources, human resources, financial resources
- metricsKPI, metric, KPIs, metrics, statistics
- workplace rightsemployment rights, workplace rights, job protection, job security, workplace safety
- farm statisticscrop loss, corn yield, milk production, egg production, wool production
- timekeepingclock, watch, watches, clocks, timer
- manufacturingfactories, factory, car factory, assembly plants, electronics factory
labor hoursmaterial costs
Spending on raw inputs
raw materials · capital expenditure · supplies · overhead · fixed costs
labor hoursleisure time
Unscheduled waking hours
time off · free time · downtime · rest period · idle time
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