Britain's multinational companies have good productivity levels, and the best domestic firms are not far off, but smaller ones often struggle.
Businesspeople also say BlackBerrys are just good for productivity.
The benefits of this tiny, mundane little innovation were immediate, apparent, and good for my productivity.
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Employees with disabilities demonstrate just as good or better productivity, attendance, work ethic and enthusiasm as their peers without disabilities.
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This is far less than the 3% yearly growth of the U.S. economy or even the 1.6% growth in per capita gross domestic product, a good measure of productivity.
This is a good job: the productivity gap between Fiat's Italian factories and its foreign operations is astounding.
Brainstorming seems like an ideal technique, a feel-good way to boost productivity.
As Toyota discovered with lean manufacturing, production-line workers, given the chance, can come up with plenty of good ideas to improve productivity.
Economic theory suggests that wages depend a good deal on the productivity of a worker, with those workers who are more productive commanding higher wages.
Productivity is good, because it makes American companies more globally competitive.
While the forced time indoors can be good for creativity and productivity, coaxing us to stay in and work, the lack of sunlight can be too much to bear after a while.
"The key thing for the American people is to realize is that the fundamentals for economic vitality and growth are there -- low interest rates, good monetary policy, productivity increases, economic vitality and growth in the first quarter, " he said.
Productivity is certainly good for shareholders, but it may not be so good for workers if it comes at the expense of jobs.
Despite all that, the eastern jobless rate (17.2% in June) is still twice that of the west, productivity is a good third lower, exports remain weak.
On a more positive note, productivity growth remains surprisingly good: it rose by 1.8% in the year to the third quarter.
As far as I can see, total factor productivity in China is quite good.
We can support it with David Ricardo kinds of arguments--productivity, wealth and those good things.
As a jointly public and private good, human capital accumulation drives industrial productivity and workforce quality.
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Clusters are good in any field because they boost productivity and innovation, and cluster policy seeks to reduce constraints and encourage externalities to raise the productivity of competition.
Smart infrastructure spending enhances productivity, which is always good.
Mr Owen uses monthly data for productivity growth in manufacturing, a good proxy for the traded-goods sector.
And unfortunately, the huge rise in productivity, which is normally a good thing, in this circumstance means that they have learned to produce the same amount of goods with fewer people.
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It may take a series of incremental steps, but the one thing I'm absolutely clear about is, is that we've got an economy that's growing right now, a huge boost in productivity -- that's the good news.
"Obviously, our challenge is we need to deliver on the pending reforms and governing responsibly over the next years, but I do see this as a very good opportunity for Mexico to retake a path of higher productivity and higher economic growth, " he said.
By lightening the burden on risk-taking, productivity and labor, we get more of these good things.
It's a good idea to identify your own weaknesses before committing to a productivity method.
The pressures of increased productivity will continue to build and that's a good thing.
We then compared each player's productivity ranking with his current salary ranking to see how good an investment he is.
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