If almost everyone is working, less skilled and motivated people also get jobs, reducing overall productivity.
In the early stages, this means going after the lowest-enrollment classes, allowing a school district to offer programs without reducing overall productivity.
If treated appropriately, we can save a significant amount of money and improve productivity by reducing the subsequent heart disease, kidney failure, strokes, blindness, and amputations.
These customers join a growing list of others in realizing the benefits our hosted productivity solutions can have in fostering collaboration, improving productivity and reducing costs.
China still has perhaps 200m underemployed rural workers who could move to factories over the next two decades, so wages for low-skilled workers are rising more slowly than productivity, reducing China's unit labour costs.
Many organizations are considering allowing personally-owned mobile devices to access business applications in order to drive employee satisfaction and productivity, while reducing their mobile expenses.
Reducing labour costs and boosting productivity is all the more important since Portugal is exposed to relatively low-tech areas of activity such as textiles that are vulnerable to competition from developing countries.
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By relentlessly reducing his costs through increased worker productivity, Ford was able to share his profits with the consumer by cutting prices.
After all, like health insurance, broccoli has the potential to improve health, thereby reducing health care spending and perhaps enhancing economic productivity of the workforce.
U.S. companies generally penalize workers who try to cut back on hours, reducing their hourly wages even when their hourly productivity remains the same or increases.
Higher wages also benefit businesses by boosting employee productivity, retention and customer satisfaction, and reducing the high costs of employee turnover.
In some industries, reducing working hours in exchange for flexibility may be a spur to productivity.
But as well as reducing demands on the state, we can and will increase the productivity of the state - through proper public service reform.
Why that is not about trumped-up short-term efficiency savings or thoughtless crisis cuts - but is about long-term change, long-term change that involves reducing the demands on the state by fixing our broken society and long term change that means increasing the productivity of the state by reforming our public services.
Until we can predict college returns more accurately, students and their families should think in terms of reducing investment risk, says Richard Vedder, an Ohio University professor and director of the Center for College Affordability and Productivity, a Washington-based advocacy group.
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