This will manifest itself in companies devoting a lower proportion of pay in time-based equity, like restricted stock, and a higher proportion of pay in performance-based equity, like performance shares.

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Full-time workers are also unionized and protect their privileges, such as seniority-based pay.

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Enterprises can deploy M2M technology now to reduce the cost of field service management through remote maintenance, they can optimize fleet scheduling with real-time location and traffic data and they can tap into new business models such as usage-based (or pay-as-you) go billing.

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He also found time to pay a call on Tencent, the Shenzhen-based Internet company that boasts over 700 million users of its QQ social-media platforms.

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Time Magazine this week gave up some of its free print content in favor of a pay-based system.

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Thus, Jean and her colleagues pay close attention to the real-time feedback made possible by social media, making improvements and modulating based on daily customer input.

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