Technology has allowed for wonderful efficiencies in the use of labor and materials and lets us do great things.
Their spending on new hardware will focus on lowering operating costs through greater efficiencies in the use of labor and energy.
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When the rewards to the productive use of labor and capital go up, more people are hired, and more investments are made.
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Crowdsourcing has the potential to enable a new elasticity in the use of labor but it also has the capacity to drive income through the floor.
So, in theory, we could, in fact, get Wal-Mart to pay the same as Costco by making similarly efficient use of labor: that is, firing between two-thirds and three-quarters of their staff.
So, in theory, we could in fact get WalMart to pay the same as Costco by making similarly efficient use of labor: that is, firing between two thirds and three quarters of their staff.
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Further, Mr. Grimm supports the use of project labor agreements on federal projects, generally ensuring the use of union workers.
"It allows me to be more efficient with the use of that labor, " Mr. Hobbs said.
"We strictly prohibit the use of child labor, " Hansen said in a statement.
These safeguards, which have been largely modeled on successful practices in the private sector, will increase stability, productivity, and certainty in Federal contracting by avoiding the disruption and disarray caused by the use of trafficked labor and resulting investigative and enforcement actions.
We hold no brief for the use of violence in labor or any other disputes.
The use of informal contract labor in underdeveloped markets is blamed by the McKinsey Global authors for missed deadlines and other cost overruns.
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Mitsubishi Kawasaki Heavy and Siemens, which have sought their own deals there, this may reflect shortcuts in use of materials and labor more than in design.
As a matter of principle, they should not accept the use by developed countries of trade sanctions to tackle labor and environmental issues.
The formula was Business 101: Use the right amount of goods and labor to deliver what customers want and no more.
Even the federal American Time Use Survey, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, doesn't directly measure how much time all adults in a household are spending caring for their children.
If you believe results from the American Time Use Survey, done by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and other studies, plenty of Americans have faulty impressions of how they spend time in our "too-rushed-to-breathe" world.
While the past approach was to use low-cost labor in China, the new factories, many of which are managed by outsiders, use increasing levels of automation, which will change the employment patterns in China.
Many think of mediation as a thing to use for labor disputes or international peacemaking.
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Employment for physician assistants is projected to grow much faster than average because health care institutions increasingly use these practitioners to contain costs, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Zabara while watching his wife use breathing techniques to control her labor pains during the birth of their first child in 1971 realized that the one-way theory might be wrong.
Even business and labor leaders whose livelihood depends on the production and use of fossil fuels acknowledge the problem.
For example, workforce analytics enabled a large distribution company to analyze historical information and use it to optimize its labor force by scheduling the right mix of full-time, part-time and temporary labor on a variety of schedules.
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Raising the cost of labor raises the incentive for employers to find ways to use less labor.
But they may not publicly oppose her nomination for tactical reasons, deciding instead that they would rather use their political clout in hopes of influencing the decision on who is appointed labor secretary.
The use of these visas is a highly controversial issue among tech workers who see foreign labor as a threat to their jobs.
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Air travel for the holiday is expected to rise 3.7%, thanks to a 4% dip in airfares from last year. 2.55 million passengers will fly to their Labor Day destination, while 2.3 million will use other modes of transportation like buses, rail and cruise ships.
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That is the opening paragraph to an article I wrote just the other day on Social Media Today re: a case study article about Atlantic Station, one of the biggest outdoor mixed use malls in the entire country, and how they are seeing the fruits of their engagement labor and then some.
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Requiring reporters to use Labor Department computers "moves an independent press into a position uncomfortably close to that of a government deputized captive distributor, " said Daniel Moss, a Bloomberg News executive editor, in testimony submitted for the June House hearing.
Often, while elected officials in the role of chief executive struggle just to maintain services and have no hope of doing anything proactive, public employee unions can ignore the realities on the ground and use both labor laws and their political muscle to achieve wages and benefits that are inconsistent with the economic times.
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