Business day
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A business day is any day including Monday to Friday and does not include holidays. Something that will take x number of business days will take x number of days only including Monday through Friday.
As an example, when sending a package with a shipping company such as FedEx, a shipment dispatched on a Thursday that is to be delivered in "two business days" will arrive on Monday, assuming that both Friday and Monday are not holidays. In other words, it will take Thursday, Friday, and Monday to deliver it.
In the United States of America, a work day is referred to as a weekday, not including Saturday and Sunday.
[edit] Shifts and trends
The introduction of flex time introduces the internet as a more easily globalized and outsourced 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 and indeed to many, there is no difference at all. These companies, quite validly, construe a business day to be any day on which they provide service.
A business day refers to the days business people work, so Mon. thru Fri. are all business days.
