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More and more manufacturers seem to be switching from the term "Man Hours" to the term "Labor Hours", presumably because it's gender neutral. Personally, I grew up hearing and using the term "Labor Hours" so it's more natural for me. Could we possibly have "Labor Hours" used in the game instead of "Man Hours"?

Maybe, although I think that might be an American thing, i haven't heard it said in Australia much.

In Britain it's man hours

In the netherlands its 'man uren', which is Man Hours.

Another idea could be Production Time or Prod. Time in short? As later on, when you get a complete robot factory, no 'man' would be working on it anymore?
Though, I'm happy with the term Man hours.

I don't think it's an American thing. I grew up with "man hours" as well here in the US.

It's something that is trying to make it much more gender neutral, as 'Man hours' intends that it will be done by a man, not a woman. Where as 'Labour time' does not.

I'd go for either Production/Assembly time, as they fit the gender neutral idea, but sound better.

You can always think that "man" is short version of manufacturing.

JussiE wins!

Ahh, also do note that it's man hours (labour hours would work too, but production time wouldn't) for a very specific reason, because factory equipment will be able to do more than one man hour of work per actual hour, so a high end factory with lots of robots might take 3 actual hours to do 40 man hours of work perhaps, but if you just got one worker to do it with hand power tools it'd take him all 40.

Last time I checked you still spell "man" in woman.

Wow, people are trying to bring workplace equality into a workplace that doesn't exist outside of a video game now?

Why stop there? Why not ask the game producers to implement workers unions and legislation such as the UK's "Offices, Shops and Railway Premises Act" which governs things such as working temperatures and the number of toilets available per quota of workers.

Or you could just play the game.

We just say MANhours stands for human hours, and it's all fine.
Manhours it is.

huMAN hours

I believe the "Man Hours" refers to Manufacturing Hours. Man being short for Manufacturing. Not everything is about gender.