However, the chatter and babble that I had to endure at times resulted in me keeping a pair of chain saw ear-defenders to hand - I was able to don said ear-wear when I needed to have the peace and solitude that the complexity or quantity of work demanded.

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Dell has seen a 15% productivity improvement via the interconnected workspace by measuring the quality, not quantity, of work.

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My husband has actually contributed a great deal more of his personal time and increased both the quality and quantity of his work.

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Leaders need to create a culture in which talented people are judged not by the quantity of their work, but by the quality of their contributions.

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According to the Human Performance Institute in Florida, improving the quantity and quality of rest is one of the most effective ways to work more efficiently.

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It's actually all starting to sound a little bit like Firestone, but given the sheer quantity of phones HTC produces, we wouldn't put it past 'em to be hard at work at several Snapdragon-powered phones with virtually identical specs right now, possibly with different markets in mind.

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With work dominating our lives in so many ways and with the constant expectations to produce a quantity of quality results, it only makes sense that we should be having fun along the way.

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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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