jobday
See also: job day
English
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editNoun
editjobday (plural jobdays)
- A day of the week, or regular portion of the day (typically 8 hours), during which one is on the job/at work
- 1974, Carroll J. Bourg, “Work and/or Job in Advanced Industrialized Societies”, in Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 57(1): 113-225:
- As the joblife becomes a smaller percentage of one's life cycle, as the jobyear, the jobweek, maybe even the jobday become smaller, ...
- A measure of time required to do a particular job or set of tasks
- 1982, Jeffrey A. Alexander, Nursing Unit Organization: Its Effects on Staff Professionalism, UMI Research Press, published 1982, page 49:
- The variable jobday probably measures the extent to which different jobs are allocated among different staff members.
- 1990, Robert L. Kimmons, Project Management Basics: A Step by Step Approach, CRC Press, page 47:
- Jobdays are used in other projects that call for closer monitoring.
Synonyms
edit- workday (mainly US); working day (mainly UK)