Your Regular Workweek Is 7

question 199

Short Answer

Your regular workweek is 7.5 hours per day for five days. If you do not work on seven public holidays and you receive two weeks' vacation, what percentage of the total hours in a year are you actually at work? Assume that a year has exactly 52 weeks.

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Definitions:

JIT Scheduling Tactics

Just-In-Time scheduling strategies that aim to improve manufacturing and inventory efficiency by receiving goods only as they are needed in the production process, reducing waste.

5S Term

A methodology originating from Japan that focuses on workplace organization and cleanliness (Sort, Set in order, Shine, Standardize, Sustain).

Workflow

The sequence of steps or processes through which a piece of work passes from initiation to completion.

Variability

The extent to which data points in a statistical distribution or dataset differ from each other and from the central values (mean, median, mode).