That's why we think it's important to highlight companies that are embracing these policies, ones that are experimenting with things like flex time and telecommuting and focusing on performance and output rather than face time.

WHITEHOUSE: The White House

An analysis by Martin Barnes, of the Bank Credit Analyst, finds that if America's growth performance is instead measured by the gap between actual and potential output, it looks much less stellar.

ECONOMIST: Alan Greenspan

On the basis of earlier surveys, most analysts thought stronger performance by the services sector, which produces three-quarters of total output, would keep overall GDP in positive territory.

ECONOMIST: Britain��s stuttering economy

Ford has made EcoBoost engines fundamental to its strategy of providing technologically advanced, high-output, smaller-displacement powertrains that deliver exceptional fuel economy and performance.

FORBES: Ford Pushes Past $20 With An F-150 That Sips Gas

Rated Class 1 Division 1 and Class 2 Division 1 this light is fitted with a high performance C4 LED rated at 50, 000 hours of operational life and 180 lumens of output.

ENGADGET: Explosion-proof flashlight could be the first to outlive its owner

The economist saw manufacturing output growth outpace service sector growth for the second quarter in a row, with a strong performance by factories in Eastern European nations like the Czech Republic, Turkey, and Russia.

FORBES: 'Quantitative Tightening' As Emerging Markets Attempt To Tame Inflation

Overall output remains almost 4% below its peak level in 2008, making this easily the worst performance by the UK economy since before the 1930s.

BBC: UK economic growth outlook still weak, NIESR says

As output is hard to measure in most professional jobs, managers will fall back on the oldest gauge of performance: favouring those employees who get in early and leave late.

ECONOMIST: Business