Not exact matches
Companies such as Uber and Instacart stand to save a ton of money
on labor
costs — up to 40 percent, according to one
study — by continuing to classify their workers as independent contractors rather than as employees.
A new
study from the Air Transport Research Society ranked 206 airports
on productivity and
cost competitiveness.
Retailers — and we've done a lot of
studies on this — can get three to five times more marketing advantage with digital flyers than they can with print, at half the
cost.
A new
study from RAND may be the first to document the impact of rising healthcare
costs on business performance,» explains Rick Newman at Usnews.com.
A component of a pre-feasibility
study on Gascoyne Resources» Dalgaranga gold project has confirmed a $ 75 million
cost to bring it into production.
Kalgoorlie - based MacPhersons Resources says its Nimbus - Boorara project near Kalgoorlie will have lower capital and operating
costs than previously estimated, according to early findings in the feasibility
study on the project.
A definitive feasibility
study on potash explorer Danakali's Colluli project in Africa has found a 30 per cent reduction in development
costs to $ US298 million ($ A415 million).
Within the last year, only about four in 10 mid-market companies have conducted a formal
cost analysis
on payroll, time and attendance and employee benefits administration alone, according to the 2014 TCO
study.
A
study suggests the hockey league's recent lockout will
cost it US$ 328 million in brand value in 2013 as disgruntled fans spend less
on the much - loved pastime.
The
study is based
on a modular development that could provide a rapid, low -
cost pathway to cash flow.
Training full time, sacrificing
studies and jobs, can have huge opportunity
costs as well, as missing out
on necessary education and prime years of work experience take tolls
on later earnings.
The Center for American Progress reviewed 30 case
studies in 11 of the most relevant research papers
on the
costs of employee turnover and found that it
costs businesses about one - fifth of a worker's salary to replace that worker.
Retirees also tend to spend more
on housing than other groups, and
cost increases in that sector have slightly outpaced inflation, the
study found.
Other measures include: • remove rule limiting Child Tax Credit (CTC) to one claimant per household (to allow two or more families sharing a house to claim the CTC); • repeal $ 10,000 cap
on medical expense tax credit claims made
on medical
costs incurred for an eligible dependent; • easier access to funds in Registered Disability Savings Plans for beneficiaries with shortened life spans; • improved Employment Insurance benefits to parents of gravely ill, murdered, or missing children; and • enhanced ability to make transfers between individual RESPs, and better access to RESP funds for post-secondary students
studying outside Canada.
According to the
study — which analyzed health insurance data
on gender transition - related expenditures — extending medical care to transgender service members would increase
costs by $ 2.4 million to $ 8.4 million a year.
The first two points are limited in the impact they demonstrate: The Temple
study showed no decrease in DUI deaths
on weekends, when the
cost of UberX rides tends to rise with demand - based pricing, while the data from Seattle is only from that one city.
Crescent Electric
studied mining
costs based
on the wattage used by the three most popular mining rigs (the AntMiner S9, the AntMinerS7 and the Avalon 6) and the days each takes to mine a coin (which range from 452 to over 1,800 depending
on the machine), then multiplied by the average electricity rate in each state.
The length and
cost of your Laurentian MBA depends
on your undergraduate field of
study — business degree holders take an accelerated 11 - month, 33 - credit program while those without one take 57 credits over 20 months.
«Public colleges are often touted as a
cost - effective college choice,» says Elyssa Kirkham, lead researcher
on the
study, «but they aren't the only affordable option.
Previously, while Alison was working in marketing at Google and Dan was
studying at Stanford, the siblings had started a private tutoring business, but quickly realized two big problems: the high
cost of tutoring and its dependence
on the physical presence of tutors for instruction.
A transportation
study by the statistical analysis media site FiveThirtyEight showed that completing 85 percent of trips
on public transit and 15 percent with Uber roughly equaled the
cost of car ownership.
Lean
on your sales scripts if you have them, and justify your
cost by showing clear value through case
studies.
Bardai and Nahmiache don't put a price tag
on employee fitness, but a recent
study out of the University of Michigan Health Management Research Center does: It showed that even 10 to 20 minutes of daily exercise could produce significant health benefits and lower the
cost of employee healthcare.
A CPP Inc
study on workplace conflict found that office conflict
costs U.S. businesses about $ 359 billion annually.
«An increase of one [happiness] point
on the survey equates to a savings of $ 2,552 in medical
costs per year per employee,» concluded the
study, conducted by U.S. health insurance company Humana and the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business.
The scientists behind these
studies all seem to agree
on the answer: rather than view narcissism as an evil to be always avoided, organizations should strive to understand that small doses of the characteristic are often inseparable from high achievement and make rational
cost - benefit analyses.
Speaking of autonomous cars and all that, the
cost of owning a car and using it for commuting will exceed the
cost of relying solely
on ride hailing services within 10 years, at least in Seattle and Denver, according to a
study by insurance startup QuoteWizard.
Based
on a skeletal development plan,
studies commissioned by the promoter, and an array of optimistic assumptions, the appraiser then projects the development
costs and income for the imagined business.
In a groundbreaking new
study, researchers at the University of Minnesota used a customized, low -
cost 3D printer to print electronics
on a real hand for the first time.
The
study estimates that the average price of 0.5 grams (a unit) of marijuana sold for $ 8.60
on the street, while its
cost of production was only $ 1.70.
A
study by Intetics revealed that outsourcing can save companies 60 percent
on overhead
costs.
In a
study of 5,140 crashes during four months in 2008 and 2010, Golub et al. [21] found that mini flash crashes increase transaction
costs through the «detrimental impact [mini flash crashes have]
on the Exchange Spread and NBBO [National Best Bid and Offer] Spread.»
Many
studies have shown that early, stimulating education at a young age also has payoff for the government with lower health and welfare
costs later
on.
Based
on our
study, SogoTrade, Merrill Edge and Fidelity ranked as the three best brokers for penny stock trading, based
on the cheapest
cost to trade.
A feasibility
study on a system by Hyperloop One, commissioned by FS Links and carried out by public accounting company KPMG, reveals that a network connecting Sweden's Stockholm and Finland's Helsinki will
cost about $ 19 billion, or $ 21 billion, to build.
Research from the
study proved that focusing
on phosphate controls as opposed to nitrogen will end algal blooms at far less
cost.
We use advertising revenue to subsidize the
cost of providing journalism to the campus, and to fund over fifty students who are
on our work -
study program.
It
costs $ 174,000 per mile to run transmission lines above ground
on average and $ 1.4 million per mile to bury them, according to a
study from the Edison Electric Institute.
Studies of the economic impact of existing laws sponsored by groups across the ideological spectrum have found that while the
costs to employers of paid sick leave mandates tend to be low
on average, they tend to be more significant in certain industries, like food services, where paid sick leave is less common and workers typically are younger.
1 «Green Retrofitting
Costs and Benefits: A New Research Agenda», National University of Singapore and Institute of Real Estate
Studies, 2011; accessed
on 1/26/2016).
David Dodge, a former Deputy Minister of Finance, Deputy Minister of Health, and Governor of the Bank of Canada, has recently released a
study on the growing
costs of health care in Canada in the coming decades and the impact they could have
on all governments — federal and provincial.
A 2016
study by the Global Business Travel Association found for 79 percent of business travelers, the company policy had the most significant impact
on their travel decisions, more so than convenience or
cost.
Based
on hundreds of quotes for our
study's sample home, we found that the most expensive city
costs 14 % more than the cheapest in our analysis.
The county seat of Runnels County, Ballinger had the second lowest annual
costs on our
study.
Of every dollar a full - service restaurant brings in, it spends roughly a third
on food and alcohol; another third
on salaries, wages and benefits; up to 10 cents
on rent; and up to 20 cents
on other
costs such as marketing, according to
studies by restaurant associations.
According to a
study from Hanley Wood Data Studio at BuilderOnline.com, assuming median income, median home price, and median rental
costs, today's typical first - time buyer would require more than 8 years to save ten percent for a down payment
on a home.
That may come as a surprise amid hand - wringing about the spiraling
cost of health care, but two new
studies, one from research company IMS Health and one from pharmacy benefit manager Express Scripts, show that the amount of money Americans spend
on prescription drugs went down in 2012 for the first time in decades.
Based
on our
study of online brokerages, the average
cost to purchase a mutual fund is approximately $ 30.00.
If the Tories go ahead with plans to double the contribution limit
on tax - free savings accounts, it will
cost the government billions of dollars and benefit only the very wealthy, two separate
studies released Tuesday say.
Based
on our
study of 15 online brokerages, the average
cost to purchase a mutual fund is $ 30.00 — an unnecessary
cost when an investor can purchase funds without being charged a transaction fee at mutual fund companies.