Mondi's forestry division, for example, has only a quarter of the employees it had four years ago.

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Mondi, a papermaker, trains staff to perform several different jobs, so that if one person falls ill, the paper mill need not stop rolling.

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Take the experience of Mondi, the multinational pulp and paper company.

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