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title: "Set your business hours in workflow automation"
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md_url: "https://www.nutrient.io/guides/workflow-automation/admin-guide/settings/business-hours.md"
last_updated: "2026-06-08T09:14:14.493Z"
description: "Learn how to set and manage your business hours for task reminders and deadlines in workflow automation to enhance productivity."
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# Define your organization's business hours easily

By selecting **Business Hours** from the Settings gear icon in the upper right-hand corner, you can define business hours for the organization:![](@/assets/guides/workflow-automation/files/1284/business-hours.png)

Select the **Edit** pencil icon to define your hours:![save image](https://help7.integrify.com/hc/article_attachments/115009721767/blobid1.png)

Check **Active** and the **Start** and **End** times to set the hours for the day of the week that you want to account for:![](@/assets/guides/workflow-automation/files/1284/business-hours-day.png)

By doing so, you can account for your defined business hours when defining a task’s timed-based settings (reminders, due dates and task timeouts).

For example, you might not want task reminders to occur during non-working days (Saturday, Sunday).

By selecting the ‘**Account for business days**’ option under a task’s **Reminders and Timeouts** option, the task reminders will not trigger during the inactive hours as defined in your **Business Hours**.![save image](https://help7.integrify.com/hc/article_attachments/115009830508/blobid3.png)

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**Note**: When you select a timeout setting (for example, 2 days) and check the business hours box, that means it will time out in 48 business hours. If you have 8 hours of business defined in your application that is 6 actual days.

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