man-hour
Sixty productivity minutes
A man-hour is a unit measuring work equal to one person working for one hour.
It's used in project planning and cost estimation: The renovation will require about 200 man-hours.
The term persists in business and industry despite gender-neutral alternatives like person-hour or labor-hour.
Assigned task volume
- quantificationExpressing something numerically
- estimationApproximate value judgment
- calculationMathematical problem-solving process
- timesheetRecord of hours worked
billing · accounting · budgeting · duration · metric · benchmark · rate · overhead
All available workers
- manpowerAvailable labor force
- headcountTotal of individuals present
- staffingProviding personnel for positions
- crewWorking team aboard
personnel · worker · blue-collar · white-collar · contractor · freelancer · FTE · shift
What something generates
- yieldProduce or relinquish
- throughputProcessing rate over time
- workrateOutput over time
- utilizationPractical application of something
efficiency · optimization · performance · effectiveness · streamlining · lean · agile · capacity
workload
Assigned task volume
- quantificationExpressing something numerically
- estimationApproximate value judgment
- calculationMathematical problem-solving process
timesheet · billing · accounting · budgeting · duration · metric · benchmark · rate · overhead · costing
workforce
All available workers
- manpowerAvailable labor force
- headcountTotal of individuals present
- staffingProviding personnel for positions
crew · personnel · worker · blue-collar · white-collar · contractor · freelancer · FTE · shift · workday
output
What something generates
- yieldProduce or relinquish
- throughputProcessing rate over time
- workrateOutput over time
utilization · efficiency · optimization · performance · effectiveness · streamlining · lean · agile · capacity · turnaround
allocation
Distribution of shares
- schedulingAssigning times to events
- deadlineTime limit for completion
- planningArranging for future events
milestone · timetable · agenda · roster · forecasting · Gantt · sprint · scoping · staffing · roadmap
- time unitssecond, minute, seconds, day, minutes
- hoursone o'clock, two o'clock, three o'clock, four o'clock, five o'clock
- unitsunit, angstrom, yard, meter, base units
man-houridle time
downtime · lost time · wasted time · slack time · dead time
man-houroutput
What something generates
deliverable · end product · result · yield · finished goods
man, human, hour, manual, humanity, hourly, horology, workhours