Sometimes, the firm does a cost-benefits analysis and realizes that Jill is less costly than Jack.
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And the consequent decision-making flaws included inadequate contingency planning, insufficient information search and biased assessments of risk, cost-benefits and moral implications.
At these premium levels -- less than half of what a conventional plan might cost -- the benefits are limited.
Fleischer was less emphatic about adjusting cost-of-living benefits or raising the retirement age.
It would have made more sense to introduce this product to millions of new people by emphasizing fun, unique flavors or cost-saving benefits.
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In both cases, companies begin to experience the cost-saving benefits of employing an array of industry best practices including portfolio diversification, demand forecasting, and procurement automation.
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However, cost-saving benefits go much further than this.
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Some final salary schemes are still free - your employer will pay all of the cost of your benefits - but this is rare nowadays.
The art of corporate strategy is to capture the cost-saving and revenue-enhancing benefits of having many different businesses under the same corporate roof while limiting how much the problems of that common housing cost the corporate parent.
The high rate of unemployment in the United States is due primarily to structural problems, high marginal tax rates, minimum wage laws, the extension of unemployment benefits, the high cost of employer-provided health benefits, and uncertainty regarding future fiscal rules and regulations.
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NAIRU. More important, the new-economy people forget that overall labour costs have risen more slowly than wages because the cost of non-wage benefits, such as health insurance, has barely budged.
Presumably, small businesses could capture that savings and defray the cost of offering health benefits--but not by much.
Investments in water are cost-effective: delivering immediate benefits to vulnerable populations today, while strengthening resilience for longer-term climate risks.
The five projects were selected because they are tough but tractable challenges whose solutions could provide immediate benefits and cost-savings to American citizens, entrepreneurs and businesses.
It shows the joint and several influence on prices (measured as percentage points of extra inflation) from unemployment, import prices, cheap oil and the cost of employer-provided fringe benefits (including pensions and health insurance), from 1994 until the first quarter of 1998.
Although the bank's income has fallen by 14% in the first nine months of the year, this was outstripped by further benefits from cost-cutting - which saw 4, 796 jobs cut - and a reduction in the amount of money it has had to set aside for losses on past loans that have turned bad.
It will give grieving families 25% of future profits for the next five years--minus the cost of health benefits.
The bill also would accelerate the planned increase in the Social Security retirement age and adjust yearly cost-of-living increases to benefits.
Older workers have traditionally earned more, reflecting the weight of seniority in pay scales, so the cost of providing final-salary pension benefits for them has been higher.
However, the impetus for employees working from home or a remote office is often rooted in company-centric benefits like cost savings, productivity gains, or access to global talent.
Complicating the budget situation is the president's decision against a commission to study a downward revision in the Consumer Price Index, which would reduce cost-of-living adjustments for Social Security recipients and trim other federal benefits.
Chancellor George Osborne has proposed a cap of 1% - which is below the expected rise in the cost of living - on increases in most working-age benefits, such as Jobseeker's Allowance and maternity pay, and tax credits for three years from 2013-14.
Store associates would also get cost-effective preventive care on the premises, saving Wal-Mart money on benefits.
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Governors are clamoring for flexibility to find real cost savings besides cutting benefits and already-low reimbursements to providers.
This move will allow HP to take advantage of the flexibility and cost benefits associated with using non-dedicated factories.
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But ignoring ecological concerns can have a real, tangible cost - one that may outweigh any extra benefits from untrammeled development.
The plan would open up the delivery of those benefits to a broad range of insurers, who would compete to offer those benefits at the most cost-efficient price.
Incentivize employers and employees to select more cost-effective health plans by capping the tax exclusion of employer-provided health benefits in 2018, and then phase it out over ten years.
When you count these kinds of side benefits, you double the cost-effective energy savings in a typical steel mill.
To focus on cost per child ignored the wider long-term benefits.
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