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<div>A business day means any day except a legal holiday. It may also be defined as any day in which the New York Stock Exchange is open for trading or any day except those on which banking institutions are authorized or required by law or other governmental action to close[1] It depends on the local workweek which is dictated by local customs, religions, and business operations.</div><div></div><div></div><div>The working time in a business day varies by region. For example, in the United States and much of the Western world, a typical workday is from 9 am to 5 pm. In contrast, for many eastern countries such as Japan, the normal business day is from 8:30 am to 7 pm.[2]</div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div>download 6 business days</div><div></div><div>DOWNLOAD: https://t.co/FtcMgS7NyS </div><div></div><div></div><div>The length of a business day varies by era, by region, by industry, and by company. Prevalent norms have included the 8-hour day and the 10-hour day, but various lengths, from 4 to 16 hours, have been normal in certain times and places.</div><div></div><div></div><div>In the United States, a business day is distinct from weekday and the standard workweek. A business day means all calendar days except Sundays and the federal legal holidays listed in 5 U.S.C. 6103(a) unless otherwise defined.[3]</div><div></div><div></div><div>At times, government agencies and businesses may define business days as "day in which offices are open" separate from the basic legal definition.[4] In the state of Georgia for purposes of consumer protection, the state clarifies that a business day, unless otherwise defined, corresponds to "business days of operation". Meaning that a business open daily would be considered to have seven business days a week.[5] For purposes of lending, the business week is six days from Monday to Saturday.[6]</div><div></div><div></div><div>Similarly, the United States Postal Service (USPS) delivers mail on Saturdays. Saturdays are included when counting business days to determine the arrival date of a package in shipping estimates. If USPS receives a parcel on a Thursday that will be delivered in "two business days", it will arrive on the following Saturday if neither Friday nor Saturday are holidays.[7][8]</div><div></div><div></div><div>In Germany, Austria and Switzerland, two German words of somewhat different meaning are used to describe business or working days. One is Werktag, a legal term applied to all calendar days except Sundays and public holidays;[10][11] it includes most Saturdays. Werktage are days on which businesses such as retail shops and institutions such as schools are generally allowed to operate (see also Ladenschlussgesetz). In contrast, Arbeitstag refers to a day on which someone actually works. For most employees, these are Monday to Friday. However, for example, a firefighter might have an Arbeitstag on Sunday even though it is legally not a Werktag.</div><div></div><div></div><div>The introduction of flex time introduces the internet as a more easily globalized and offshored workforce. The notion of a business day has come under a certain degree of challenge. Information-based companies with a limited dependence on physical goods have less of a need to distinguish a weekend day from a weekday. Indeed, to many, there is no difference at all. These companies construe a business day to be any day on which they provide service.</div><div></div><div></div><div>Some businesses conduct business transactions and operations on a 24/7 basis due to the nature of the field. Such businesses include hotels, hospitals, police and fire departments, gas stations, and airports.</div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div>With the introduction of flex time, the significance of the traditional business day is declining. Although the 8-hour work day still remains as a standard for many industries, this trend is expected to decline further during the coming years.</div><div></div><div></div><div>Fixed the calculation, and changed/split the formula to hopefully be a bit clearer. First I determine the number of weekends that must be jumped over:</div><div></div><div>RoundDown((thisRow.[Duration (in business days)] + thisRow.[Start Date].Weekday() - 3) / 5)</div><div></div><div></div><div>When adding a rule to reset work due date, it would be helpful to auto factor in weekends. Ex. if it takes 3 business days for our QA team to test a process, and it is sent to them on Thursday or Friday, a 3 day window is shortened to 1-2 business days.</div><div></div><div></div><div>When creating workflows, if I have it create a task, it lets you set the due date to 2 days from task creation. However when you create a task manually, you can set it to 2 BUSINESS days from task creation. The problem this is causing is some automated tasks are landing on Saturdays and Sundays.</div><div></div><div></div><div>Thank you for reaching out to HubSpot support. You are correct that there is no option in creating tasks in a workflow so that days will automatically be counted in business days, and would definitely recommend posting on our ideas forum about this issue. That being said, there is an option in the settings tab of the workflow builder to only allow actions to execute Monday-Friday. Depending on the workflow setup you have, you could create a delay prior to the task that will trap contacts until a week day, at which point a task will be created. This obviously is not an ideal outcome, as depending on how you set up your delays, this could still lead to tasks with due dates on the weekend, however this additional option may be a viable way to avoid this from happening in most instances depending on whether or not the workflow needs some actions to execute on the weekend, so I wanted to follow up with this suggestion. Other than that, the only way to set up tasks with business day options at this time is through the standard tasks tool under Sales.</div><div></div><div></div><div>I've marked this thread as Delivered since the original post was specific to the Create Task action. If there are other areas that you would like to enable this, we recommend either creating separate posts for those or commenting/upvoting in existing ones. For example, here is a thread about adding business day support into the delay workflow actions.</div><div></div><div></div><div>Hi All - This is now in public beta! You can request access to the beta, if you have workflows access, by going to your HubSpot portal, clicking on your portal name on the top right, and then going down to "Product Updates". On the left side of the page click on "Betas". Find the beta titled "[Public Beta] Set task due date to count business days in workflows" and on the right of it you should see a button to join the beta. You can also click on the beta to read more information about it and how it works. Once you've joined, you can then go to the workflows tool and the Create Task action should be updated to allow you to select business days.</div><div></div><div></div><div>Thank you so much for this feedback! I'm a product manager on the workflows team and we are currently in the process of updating the Create Task action in workflows to allow you to choose to only count business days when setting both the Due Date and the Email Reminder Date. This post seems to be around enabling business days across a few different areas of workflows, so I won't update this status, but I will follow back up when we have enabled this in the Create Task action and it is out in public beta so you can request access in your portal!</div><div></div><div></div><div>I'm making a workflow to force a deal to closed lost if certain things don't happen in time. I want to wait 3 business days before checking to see if they're done so that's similar to this request, but adding the option of selecting business days in workflows is becoming more important for us.</div><div></div><div></div><div>I'd love to see this added as well. We want to send out emails in a timely fashion the day after the order has been received. However we have to allow for customers who place orders on Fridays that ship on Mondays, so ALL emails have to be delayed several days to account for this. Please let us choose business days!</div><div></div><div></div><div>I had the same issue converting from calendar to business days in Looker. I was pulling data from Google Tables, so I did not want to solve the issue in the database but wanted to in the report. The solution I came up with does not take holidays into account, so it may not be the right fix for everyone, but it was sufficient for my reporting requirements.</div><div></div><div></div><div>I noticed a post or two discussing that there was a Business Days or Workdays-type function in beta and I am wondering if there are any solutions to finding the number of business days between two dates until this solution goes live?</div><div></div><div></div><div>My data is fairly straight forward; assuming two columns [Date 1] and [Date 2] does anyone have an elegant solution to finding the number of business days between these dates? Business days would be defined here as M-F and if possible (although I know this is asking a lot) excluding certain dates that are holidays (I could add these manually to the function as necessary if someone has a way of incorporating this).</div><div></div><div></div><div>I'm aware (and thankful) of formulas such as this: -Business-Days-5fa859c5a9e240c8992cdba401e8b33d where from a start date and an end date, the # of business days is determined. I'm trying to reverse-engineer that, I guess, and start with a start date & number of business days to return an end date.</div><div></div><div></div><div>I tried Red Gregory's option as well located here: =lT1PAN9udRI&feature=emb_logo but my issue is the # of business days I'm adding fluctuates frequently between 1-30 business days, so hard coding "+4 days if it's a Tuesday" or whatever won't work because that could return a weekend.</div><div></div><div></div><div>This is saying from the start date, add the business days as regular days, plus the ceiling (take away the decimals and round up) of the business days minus 1 for today, divided by 5 workdays in a week, *2, minus 1 for the end date... I think. It works so at this point I'm rolling with it. In some resemblance of English, it's doing start date + business days + weekend days.</div><div></div><div></div><div>I am trying to calculate business days between two dates in Oracle select. I got to the point when my calculation gives most results correct for given dates (I compare it with NETWORKDAYS in excel) but sometimes it varies from 2 days to -2 days - and I don't know why...</div><div></div><div></div><div>I changed my example to more readable and to return count of bus. days between. I do not know why you need 'J'- Julian format. All it takes is start/Install and end/Complete dates. You will get correct number of days between 2 dates using this. Replace my dates with yours, add NLS if needed...:</div><div></div><div> 8d45195817</div>