man-hour
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thumb|class=skin-invert-image|upright=1.35|Human-hours worked per week in the United States, from 2006 to 2023
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thumb|class=skin-invert-image|upright=1.35|Human-hours worked per week in the United States, from 2006 to 2023
A man-hour or human-hour is the amount of work performed by the average worker in one hour. It is used for estimation of the total amount of uninterrupted labor required to perform a task. For example, researching and writing a college paper might require eighty man-hours, while preparing a family banquet from scratch might require ten man-hours.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “man-hour” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.