The Person-Days setting determines how many hours constitute a single workday for your organization. It is used to:
Track worked or assigned time to a person in reports
Convert hours into person-days
Sell services in day units in budgets
📌 Note: Person-days are different from resourcing and individual cost rates. They are a metric for understanding and analyzing how work is distributed across the team.
The setting applies organization-wide and is configured in Settings > General > Work Time.
Person-Days in Reports
The person-day setting converts hours worked into day units in reports, helping you see workloads in terms of full workdays.
Example A: Person-day = 6 hours
Lucy Wu worked 40 hours
Person-day: 6 hours
In reports formatted as person-days: 40 ÷ 6 = 6.67 person-days
Example B: Person-day = 8 hours
Lucy Wu worked 40 hours
Person-day: 8 hours
In reports formatted as person-days: 40 ÷ 8 = 5 person-days
Person-Days in Budgets
The person-day setting also affects how services defined in day units are calculated in budgets.
Example: If 1 day = 6 hours, selling one day of work corresponds to 6 hours.
Custom Person-Days
The Ultimate plan lets you customize Person-days per budget, giving you more flexibility in setting up individual budgets outside of organizational settings, similar to custom cost rates.
