Units Of Time

Time can be entered in days (“d”), hours (“h”) or minutes (“m/min”). The default unit of Duration is days; for example, when entering “1” for duration, Workzone labels that as 1 day (and equates it to 8 hours). Enter “4h” (instead of 0.5) for 4 hours (1/2 a day) of duration. To enter time in minutes, append an “m” after the number. So 15 minutes would be “15m”. Regardless of the units used in entering duration, duration will be displayed in days if more than 1 day, in hours if between 1 hour and 8 hours, and in minutes if less than 1 hour.

The default unit of Work is hours; when entering “1” for work, Workzone considers that to be 1 hour. Appending a “d” after the number will convert it to an hour equivalent (8 hours per day). So entering “10d”; Workzone will automatically convert this to 80 hours. To enter time in minutes, append an “m” after the number. So 15 minutes would be “15m”. Regardless of the units used in entering work, work will be displayed in hours if more than 1 hour, and in minutes if less than 1 hour.

The smallest increment of time for duration or work is 1 minute (“1m”).

Work gets allocated by Projects...

When a task is newly created. By default, the hours of work are initially set as the same as the hours of duration (i.e., a task with 1 day of duration will also have 8 hours of work).
If a different duration and amount of work are specified for a task, the specified work is divided equally across the duration.

Example: 8 hours of work that will be spread out over 2 calendar days of duration. Workzone will allocate 4 hours of work to each of the two calendar days of the duration.

Example: 32 hours of work to be done over 2 days of calendar duration. Workzone will allocate 16 hours of work to each of the two calendar days of the duration.

If multiple parties are assigned to a task, the hours of work reported are divided equally among the parties (e.g., if there is 8 hours of work, 1 day of duration and 2 responsible parties, each responsible party will be assigned 4 hours of work on the 1 day of duration).
The formula for allocating work over a duration or among responsible parties cannot be modified.