"work input" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to the physical or mental effort put into a task or project. You can use it whenever you are discussing the amount of effort or energy someone puts into something. Here is an example: "John's work input on this project was evident from the high quality of his research and thorough analysis of the data."
This in turn affects the work input required.
Unfortunately, the opposite also seems to be true in that inconsistent social work input (such as changing allocated workers) increases the likelihood of negative outcomes.
Improvements to the exergy efficiencies of the compressors will reduce the work input for the liquefaction process.
Tensile modulus and work input increased significantly with degree of hard phase crystallinity, but were independent of degree of phase separation.
At the same amounts of the heat released, the work input of the compressor and the heater are both reduced notably.
The energy balance of the process revealed that the main energy requirement is for heating (96%) compared to work input (4%).
To build that sort of culture, business leaders need to become more tolerant of failure — which is the flip side to innovation — and move away from micromanaging employees' work inputs toward letting their outputs speak to their success, Van Reenen said.
The interviewees described their own tasks by using the model, including work inputs and outputs, weak points, unnecessary elements, rewards, means of communication, project's internal and external personnel, stakeholders, organisations, systems and documents used for communication.
A participant who looked for open employment said that he earned only 3,000 Japanese yen (< 40 US dollars) a month for 5 to 6 hours work inputting data, until the company went into bankruptcy.
The Children's Society, a charity, has created a helpful online calculator here which shows quite how this worked: input characteristics for any family (how many children, etc) and you get a poverty line based on those characteristics.
The focus group outputs were compiled based on working input from participants, captured on chart paper, and further clarified by the digital recordings.
