Sentences with phrase «higher worker productivity»

That report found that green building design can achieve health benefits — including reduced medical costs and higher worker productivity — up to three times the size of the energy savings.

Not exact matches

While compensation and benefits matter to workers, research from Gallup shows that zeroing in on a mission is linked to higher employee engagement, better retention rates and increased productivity.

In the past, spending that modernized highways and mass - transit systems or enhanced higher education has boosted the productivity of America's workers.

The Center for the Promotion of Health in the New England Workplace says that one - third of workers report high levels of stress resulting in higher healthcare costs, periods of employee disability, absenteeism, higher turnover, and lower productivity on the job.

Contrary to popular belief, part - time employees and remote workers still have high productivity and engagement levels, writes Branson.

Today, the people who run the most successful companies have learned that helping workers balance their lives on the job and off results in a healthy environment with less stress, much higher productivity, and much lower employee turnover.

Interestingly, slightly more than half of those surveyed who gave the «highest agreement rating» to the statement «I feel I can approach my manager with any type of question» are considered actively engaged in their work, according to The Wall Street Journal, in a sign that manager openness may be tied to worker productivity.

A two - year global study conducted by project management software company Redbooth found that productivity among office workers worldwide is at its highest point at 11 a.m., and plummets completely after 4 p.m.

Growing small businesses that have adopted a wireless solution are already reporting immediate paybacks in higher productivity, flexible application mobility and greater worker satisfaction.

It seems the best workers at the company share a very specific pattern of high - intensity productivity followed by a short recharge period.

He explained that companies with more female workers in senior managerial positions experience higher returns and enjoy better productivity.

Economic growth in China has long been premised on high levels of savings and investment, growth of manufacturing and exports, migration of low - productivity rural workers to higher - productivity urban jobs and integration of new technologies.

More than 40 years ago, the Magna founder decided his company would experience higher productivity and less labour strife — and, as a result, faster growth — if its workers got some of the financial benefits of strong performance.

Wage and benefit increases of 15 to 20 percent per year at the average Chinese factory will slash China's labor - cost advantage over low - cost states in the U.S., from 55 percent today to 39 percent in 2015, when adjusted for the higher productivity of U.S. workers.

Airline workers also work much harder than they did in the past; the industry had the second highest multifactor productivity growth from 1997 through 2014, according to an analysis by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

A one percentage point increase in the growth rate of productivity has been associated with between two - thirds and one percentage point higher growth in median worker compensation in the period since 1973, and with between 0.4 and 0.7 percentage points higher growth in production / nonsupervisory worker compensation.

Those long hours are taking their toll on workers» physical and mental health, leading to high stress levels, sleep problems, and lower productivity.

The resulting higher level of worker productivity makes it easier to justify additional infrastructure that saves the time and labor of productive workers.

Allowing wages to continue to rise should, in the longer run, boost productivity growth because businesses will be incentivized to find ways to improve the productivity of their workers in the face of tighter labor markets and higher labor costs.

With OSIsoft's software, this data is consolidated into one high - fidelity framework that ensures all monitoring and analytics applications work seamlessly, resulting in a multitude of benefits including optimized asset utilization, reduced operational costs, and improved worker productivity.

While it is sensible economics to interpret the positive link of employee stock ownership and profit sharing to company performance as reflecting worker responses to the incentives in the plans, it is possible that the positive relation comes from a very different causal link, in which higher - productivity companies introduce profit sharing or employee stock ownership plans for whatever reason.

No matter what their age, engaged workers tend to have higher well - being, better health, and higher productivity than their not - engaged and actively disengaged counterparts.

These same ideas should foster feelings of happiness and satisfaction among your remote workers, which in turn will lead to higher productivity and better quality of work.

The chief argument against decentralizing production and attending to the well being of workers is that it would lead to less productivity of labor, less efficiency, higher costs, and inferior goods.

As an owner of your company, you have to ensure that the productivity of your workers is high and so is the efficiency.

It's been shown in multiple studies that workers who are content in their jobs have a higher rate of productivity, a lower rate of absenteeism or accidents, and are likely to experience greater job satisfaction and feel loyalty toward the company instead of just showing up for a paycheck.

Finally, Spain faces a significant medium to long term challenge regarding the re-incorporation of millions of workers to its labour market while at the same time keeping productivity high.

Over 200 workers of the YEA have been affected in the latest transfer which was intended to reposition the Agency for higher productivity, according to management.

Moments earlier, Digby Jones, who introduced him on stage, made a similar point, telling low income workers that higher wages required an increase in productivity.

«This is in part explained by the positive effects of higher wages for businesses, which benefit from reduced levels of turnover, savings from reduced spending in recruiting and training new workers as a result of the lower turnover, higher morale and productivity, and improved customer service.»

Labour's infrastructure spending would, if well targeted, deliver a productivity boost, but the IFS warned that this was cancelled out by the negative impact of more workers» rights, a higher minimum wage, more bank holidays and higher corporation tax.

We've arranged to produce more knowledge workers than we can employ, creating a labor - excess economy that keeps labor costs down and productivity high.

The researchers believe their findings provide robust contemporary evidence that raising salaries at the lower end of the wage spectrum leads to higher productivity by incentivising workers to work harder, smarter and more cohesively.

If the assumptions about productivity in the education realm are correct, however, schools face a higher price for skilled workers even though skilled teachers are no more productive than they used to be.

As the demand for and prices of skilled workers rise, industries outside education are willing to pay the higher price, which is justified by higher productivity.

In a capitalist economy, profits are the reward earned by firms that maximize the quality of services and goods, minimize overhead and bureaucracy, motivate their workers to achieve high and consistent levels of productivity, and avoid unnecessary expenditures.

This increase in spending partially reflects that schools must compete to hire college - educated teachers in a labor market where well - educated workers command higher and higher salaries, but it also indicates that innovation and increases in productivity have occurred faster and been more effective in the broader economy than in the field of education.

in the face of rising productivity and affluence, older workers find themselves disadvantaged in their efforts to retain employment, and especially to regain employment when displaced from jobs; the setting of arbitrary age limits regardless of potential for job performance has become a common practice, and certain otherwise desirable practices may work to the disadvantage of older persons; the incidence of unemployment, especially long - term unemployment with resultant deterioration of skill, morale, and employer acceptability is, relative to the younger ages, high among older workers; their numbers are great and growing; and their employment problems grave; the existence in industries affecting commerce, of arbitrary discrimination in employment because of age, burdens commerce and the free flow of goods in commerce.

Jim Stanford, chief economist at Unifor, the union representing Canadian auto workers, says Canadian labour costs are on par with other developed nations, and points out we've better productivity rates and a higher quality workforce than the U.S.

My favorite discovery was a suite of colorful bar graphs charting women's labor productivity, souped up with photocollages of climbing high - rises and satisfied workers: a rather more inventive kind of data journalism.

They indicate that higher ozone concentrations, even at levels below current air quality standards in most of the world, have significant negative effects on worker productivity.

Accordingly, anti-age discrimination in employment law aims at promoting various purposes to remedy these wrongs, including preventing opportunistic behaviour by employers, who are tempted to dismiss older workers when their labour costs are higher than their marginal productivity; promoting displaced older workers who experience major challenges to reemployment; protecting against ageist stereotypes and ageism; and alleviating social isolation, oppression and economic deprivation among older workers.

They have a better child care system, more vacation and more free time; they also have a higher rate of unionization, higher unemployment rate (it's particularly dismal for young workers), lower productivity, and a growing discord between the (largely immigrant) poor and the rest of the country.

The toll of chronic diseases on workplace productivity is high, with seven major diseases accounting for a substantial amount of «presenteeism» — that is, workers performing less due to the effects of sickness and absenteeism.

I liked the concept of the Surface Laptop: A premium computing device for higher - education students and productivity workers.

As workforces diversify (be it gender, cultural background, age or disability diversity, or even diversity of thought), organisations will place diversity and cultural intelligence high on their HR agenda, in a bid to integrate diverse workers and maintain productivity.

«This breakthrough in the manufacturing process can be adapted across the industry and will certainly help to raise productivity as a whole... While some jobs might be displaced, there will also be new higher valued jobs created,» said Yong, who is also Executive Secretary of United Workers of Electronics & Electrical Industries (UWEEI).

«These talented young workers sign an «implicit contract» with their employer that states that they regularly get higher wage increases than their productivity increase and that the firm has a strong interest in keeping them for a lifetime career,» Zwick said in an email interview.

Knowledge in managing workers to ensure productivity levels are exceeded with high motivational skills.

Production Line Worker — ABC Manufacturing — St. Louis, MO — 6/2013 to Present • Stand for over eight hours and handle equipment weighing up to 80 pounds everyday • Inspect and analyze production line units to predict potential obstacles and recommend preventative action, resulting in a 10 percent increase in daily productivity • Assist with the loading, unloading, and organization of production equipment and finished products • Follow safety protocols and meet environmental codes while maintaining a consistently high and accurate production rateProduction Line Worker — Econ Developments — St. Louis, MO — 9/2008 to 6/2013 • Worked individually and within the production line crew to fabricate and install various pieces on a daily basis • Performed assembly with a 95 percent accuracy rate, the highest in the company • Reported daily production numbers and machinery malfunctions to the factory supervisor • Completed quality control checks upon product completions and helped sort and load orders for shipping