It also indicated that output and new work picked up for businesses last month.
Today's puzzle: How and why employers managed to boost productivity, or output per hour of work, like never before during the worst recession in decades?
The Labor Department reported Wednesday that productivity, the amount of output per hour of work, increased at an annual rate of 2.2% in the first quarter, higher than the 1.5% increase that had been expected.
But: If yours is a "personal service corporation"--meaning the corporation's main output is your own work effort, for instance as consultant or pet groomer--then all your profits are taxed at a flat 35% corporate rate and you'll usually do better with a passthrough.
The index indicated firms were working through backlogs of work to sustain output growth.
Reynolds digs deep into the underlying data to show that what has been reported as rising inequality involves primarily changing demographics that reflect changing patterns of work and productive output, as well as misunderstood changes in the meaning and composition of the numbers being reported themselves.
That's the equivalent of subtracting one-fifth to one-sixth of a work day from overall output.
But that was a "very crude calculation, " Mr. Tombs says in an interview, based on the subtraction of one work day's output, or about 1.5% of the quarter's total, from the calendar.
One problem is that typical power meters work by measuring the voltage output and converting that to charge remaining.
Previously, the commission had to wait until all member states had calculated their own output data before it was able to work out EU-wide figures.
North Slope producers are occasionally advised by Alyeska to prorate production, or reduce output proportionally, for example, when maintenance work is performed on the pipeline.
And in the long run later retirement and other reforms will expand the labour force and thus potential output, whereas higher taxes dull incentives to work and invest.
The usefulness of this research lies in its attempt to understand the trade-offs between work hours, employment, productivity, output and wages.
"If you want to structure a remote-work agreement, voluntarily work several consecutive Saturdays and measure your output increases (e.g. deals closed, client hours booked, etc.), " Ferriss said.
For all the fancy talk academics and critics use to describe Gehry's output, there's a simple truth to his work: Most of his constructions engage the man on the street.
Recycling is also a big part of the inner workings of The Plant and tenants work with each other to use their waste output in their food production and farming techniques.
Deaths apart, investors worry that widespread regional outbreaks of bird flu will make so many people unable or unwilling to work that global supply chains will be interrupted and output will fall, tipping the world into recession.
According to UNESCO's Advisor for Communication and Information in the Kingston Office, Isidro Fernandez-Aballi, UNESCO is always willing to work with institutions of higher education to improve journalism output as this is considered a cornerstone of a strong society.
Driving to work leads to traffic congestion, an outrageous carbon dioxide output, not to mention headaches.
So, if the machines are doing all of the work then, well, who is going to be consuming the output?
To work off inventories, builders will have to cut back more, dragging output growth down for longer.
He compared his output with colleagues and played up the fact that he would produce the same or greater quality of work the next year.
Deregulation to permit more part-time work and short-term contracts, and tax changes to reduce labour costs, have all made output more job-intensive.
An EU team has begun work in Rome, monitoring how Italy plans to cut its debt burden, 120% of annual economic output (GDP).
As the whole point of Quantitative Easing and the government stimulus was to raise output and employment (because, for those who have not noticed, we have almost 14 million citizens looking for work), there is no reason to maintain the assumption of zero change in the quantity of goods.
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