As the big oil firms have sacked thousands of staff in cost-cutting drives, the independents have recruited geologists and engineers.
The Treasury just employ non Civil Servants to do the jobs and they do not show on the statistics as Civil Servants, and as most are agency staff they cost more!!
BBC: NEWS | Have Your Say | Would you back civil servant strike?
Dutchess County Clerk Bradford Kendall said the law's provision that the county process all the forms from permit holders seeking to opt out of having their status public could bog down his staff and cost county taxpayers tens of thousands of dollars.
The trusts say a single organisation can better recruit and retain staff and provide cost-effective services to largely rural communities.
BBC: NEWS | UK | England | Support for NHS trust merger plan
Historically Sales looked for lower cost staff to offload cold calling, lead qualification and general sales support activities to Inside Sales reps.
Reportedly, Sallie had a rather extensive staff which added to her cost to the company.
The decline in service standards - which unions blame on a shortage of trained staff - are likely to cost the company dear.
It adds that health boards have failed to reduce the high cost of agency staff, and says a big reduction is unlikely before proposed changes to services are introduced.
This estimate includes the time it takes people to delete the messages, the cost of buying larger mail servers and storage systems to cope with inboxes flooded with the messages and the cost of having staff unclog networks overloaded by spam.
In the meantime, however, he has sought to limit the staff to the three lowest-cost knee implants.
While investors may welcome the news of cost savings, HBOS staff are worried.
But the cost of maintaining knowledgeable staff and browsable store space contributes to higher prices, which many consumers are unwilling to pay.
Faculty and staff get a bigger break: under the rules, you can deduct the cost of your uniforms if you are a civilian faculty or staff member of a military school.
The money it was paid included the cost of salaries for those staff, as well as agency fees.
It has laid off staff in the newsroom and taken other cost-cutting measures to offset a decline in advertising revenue.
Even with the cost of full-time staff on the road, a campaign like Summer Job more often operates at a fraction of the traditional media spend while consumers are demonstrating an increasing desire for real content that is entertaining a balance that can be hard to maintain when a sponsor is involved.
Personal selling in general is expensive because of the cost of recruiting, training and motivating staff.
BBC: NEWS | Programmes | Working Lunch | Lunch Lesson 13 - Advertising
Social media can be a low-cost way for a small firm to staff up quickly.
Cloud computing is revolutionizing the way companies do business, but at a cost: alienating CIOs and their support staff.
As part of other cost-cutting measures, control centre staff at West Yorkshire's current Birkenshaw headquarters will be moved to the service's current Safety Central building in Leeds.
BBC: French firm supplies new Yorkshire fire control systems
In some cases, managers are immediately charged the cost of any early retirements they offer their staff.
Mind you, there's growth too in the cost of running the business, as more staff are taken on.
Certainly, without the favourable tax treatment of stock options, it would cost companies much more to pay their senior staff such vast sums.
The project has been mired in controversy since it started two years ago over the extra cost NHS trusts have to bear to train staff and cope with delays in the implementation of various software.
BBC: Electronic records is one part of the ?6.8bn IT upgrade
Business plans for China rarely reflect the cost and time involved in recruiting and retaining local staff.
The employers' report says they will consider asking staff to pay higher pension contributions, partly to offset the cost of increased longevity.
Many big chains have shed permanent staff in recent years and resorted to temporary workers, who cost less since they receive fewer benefits.
Cahoot, with only 56 staff, wants to attract customers by being the lowest-cost players in the market and plans to target the individual needs of customers.
应用推荐