man-hours

Copyright basically hinges on the act of copying being a laborious process, involving large machinery and man-hours.

If the cost in man-hours to work a deal for $X eyeballs is more than CPM*($X/100), a company won't even try to sell the deal.

And made up for it by throwing man-hours at it.

When you have 1.6 billion users, every time you waste 5 minutes of their time installing updates and rebooting, that wastes 190 human lifetimes worth of man-hours.

I'm not even a native English speaker, but non-sexism would be reading 'man-hours' and implying that men and women are meant, not differentiating both.

You've basically built a way to turn a spreadsheet hacked together by a domain expert and a small number of development man-hours into something much move valuable and maintainable.

I am not sure if any research has been done in this direction, but I would be curious to know how many man-hours were saved due to using Uber, instead of waiting for cabs.

Years ago I came up with a simple equation for determining priority of software engineering bug fixes and small features: Priority = (Benefit the feature provides to the product) / (Time to complete the feature) where benefit is defined by the business side using any scale (say 1-100), and time to complete is defined by the assigned software engineer using any unit (perhaps man-hours).

But there are those come into the discussion wielding the hammer of Moral Authority, and often they suggest that if you fail to join the crusade to change a word like "man-hours" then you're an ignorant bigot riding high on all your privilege (you can already find some posts on this thread suggesting ideas from this group).