Our automobile industry has overhauled assembly lines, increased worker productivity, and is competitive once again.
But enterprises must beware: What they gain in worker productivity, they could lose in IT security.
If and when worker productivity rises then the amount of profit that can be made rises.
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Worker productivity soared, and workers became very passionate about their opportunity to make a difference in the company's operations.
This year Eircom expects a 16% improvement in worker productivity, which will translate into a 10% reduction in costs.
By relentlessly reducing his costs through increased worker productivity, Ford was able to share his profits with the consumer by cutting prices.
Reductions in absenteeism and improvements in worker productivity resulting from better health outcomes because of expanded coverage would particularly benefit small businesses.
According to a recent report conducted by OfficeTeam, only 8 percent of the 1, 000 managers surveyed said March Madness would actually hurt worker productivity.
Simply put, this trend has big potential to revolutionize information-worker productivity.
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Using sensors and software to control office lighting, reduce energy use and improve worker productivity is gradually gaining acceptance among building owners and attracting interest from investors.
By that I mean they can't find how these mobile devices are improving worker productivity, which computers have been doing quite ruthlessly for the last 70 years.
Due to the permanent gains in worker productivity a firm will likely require fewer employees to support an additional unit of revenue growth than it had in the past.
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PreussenElektra, by contrast, is huge, rich and, thanks to Hartmann's streamlining work during Act I (he improved PreussenElektra's worker productivity by 20% from 1993), it is already Germany's lowest-cost producer.
Fixes may be expensive, but the United States has made the compelling case that the costs of enforcing clean air regulations are offset by gains in health and worker productivity.
The purpose of the lab study was to determine whether the distraction created by the temptation of outside activities was indeed what caused a decrease in worker productivity on sunny days.
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This can increase remote worker productivity by seventy-two percent.
On the other, IT must enable worker productivity.
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That's on top of other health-related costs like higher absenteeism and lower worker productivity, costs that will continue to rise and threaten the vitality of American businesses until this problem is solved once and for all.
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As the tax hike obviously would not raise worker productivity, employers would be unwilling and unable to bear the tax, and it would be passed on to workers in the form of reduced wages or benefits.
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In a 2009 paper Mr Glaeser and Matthew Resseger of Harvard University find that in highly skilled areas, city size explains 45% of the variation in worker productivity (it has almost no effect in underskilled cities).
Workplace flexibility policies can increase worker productivity.
Also making the case was Drew Greenblatt, the widely quoted president and owner of Marlin Steel, a Baltimore manufacturer of steel products that has managed to expand and add jobs by deploying robots and other machines to increase worker productivity.
Each year on April 25 the world recognizes World Malaria Day to call attention to the disease that kills nearly one million people each year and, negatively affects educational achievement, worker productivity, and economic development, and to mobilize action to combat it.
It is an enabler for many companies to overcome the inertia of naysayers to experiment with scenarios where tablets can make add plenty of value (like field service, like sales, like meetings, like healthcare, like HR and general worker productivity).
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Now hoverbikes, in contrast strike me as more likely to increase worker marginal productivity all the way down the income ladder.
This demographic trend will have a profound impact on medical costs, businesses, worker efficiency and productivity.
They monitor each worker's productivity to the second and can give instant feedback about how to improve production.
The low productivity worker who loses a job is clearly worse off.
The industrial revolution placed a premium on worker efficiency and productivity and those who were able to successfully overcome the deficiency of their machines.
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