The same math, of course, can rearrange a given number of labor hours to reduce customer waiting time.
He and Shultz estimate that with the right incentives, America could see a 10% boost in labor hours by 2050.
Backup and retrieval needs would grow exponentially, which meant the cost in labor hours would kill a company if it didn't have some kind of automated backup.
Borrowing from the law-firm economics of billable hours, he has ordered plants to make sure that at least 85% of the labor hours in the payroll are charged to a specific job.
The conversion rate leakage could be a result of understaffing, so, based on these data, the executive immediately orders field management to increase labor hours and schedule extra shifts with an emphasis on cashiers and sales associates.
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According to CEO Jamie Sokalsky, the increase in total construction cost at Pascua Lama can be split approximately equally between the impact of the delay of first gold production to the second half of 2014, increased labor hours and installation rates.
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Each pair of shoes consumes ten hours of labor, two hours more than leather shoes.
The same goes for nearly every aspect of a government labor contract: hours, benefits, and working conditions.
The time between when a woman begins labor and 48 hours after the birth of a baby is a high-risk period during which millions of newborn babies and new mothers die each year.
Compared to the estate tax provisions in current law, and after all economic adjustments, repeal of the estate tax would increase GDP by about 2.25 percent, private sector output and labor income (hours worked times hourly wage) by about 2.34 percent, and capital stock by 6.1 percent.
Recently, the technology giant's own annual audits have found instances of underage labor, excessive working hours and inadequate safety.
In situations where property rights are not secure, there is much less incentive to spend hours investing labor when it is so easily stolen in the end.
Focusing on those markets should help Wal-Mart get past the mistakes that forced it to fold its tent in South Korea, where poor real estate choices gave it bad locations, and in Germany, where it misread the local norms for shopping hours and labor laws.
The reduction of working hours was one of the original objectives of labor law, and was first directed toward the hours of working children in mid-19th century Europe.
During this week when there's been a lot of labor news - starting with the big strike at Chrysler that lasted all of six hours before ending with a labor deal - let's take a look at labor unions - trade unions in particular - in a very different country, Egypt.
The statuette is hand-cast and takes 17 people and 35 to 40 hours of total labor.
They include 6, 000 hand-sewn stitches and often require 40 hours of expert labor.
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"We have carefully tracked store traffic, adjusting store hours to control labor while assuring we are open when we need to be, " he says.
Other widely watched data points: the average workweek climbed only slightly to 34.5 hours, and the labor force also increased a bit.
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Joshua Feinman, chief economist at Deutsche Bank Asset Management, noted that the Labor Department payroll report indicated fewer hours worked and no signs of an upward trend in wages.
Not only does the lack of laundry mean cleaner water, it means that people can be spared hours of tedious, backbreaking labor.
That is the amount of time members of the NFL Referees Association sat locked out from officiating NFL games before a new labor agreement was struck in the early hours of September 27, 2012.
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The Labor Department said 5 million people worked fewer hours last month because of the snow.
The average workweek, a highly influential measure of the strength of the labor market, held at 34.3 hours.
To be sure, a precious few do both, but they often have a partner who stays home or they can pay someone else to provide domestic labor and child care while they put in long hours at the office.
These are labor-intensive operations that require thousands of man-hours by the Secret Service, and the decision was made that given the unhappy set of choices sequester presented to the Secret Service, that this was the best option.
The researchers also found the labor demand for work-family accommodation does not seem to propel the distribution of telecommuting hours.
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