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Notes from an engineering consultancy
Articles on working hours, fatigue and safety, estimating and overruns, and record keeping for engineering consultancies, with sources for every claim.
Two kinds of unbilled hour, and why to keep them apart
An hour that was never chargeable and an hour you chose not to charge look the same on an invoice. They mean very different things for the business, and a timesheet should keep them separate.
Quote the next job from the hours of the last one
Most engineering estimates are written from memory, and memory forgets the review cycles, the rework and the close-out. The hours you already recorded do not.
The 50-hour wall: what long weeks really produce
A century-old study of munitions workers found weekly output kept pace with hours only up to about 49 a week. Here's what that means for engineering consultancies, and what to measure in your own firm.
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