Sentences with phrase «less productivity of»

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.

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In other words: Don't feel guilty for heading out to that afternoon spin class: you'll see productivity benefits at work — and less of a bum print in your chair.

The blog of startup iDoneThis recently shared another simple but powerful productivity hack from the company's early days that, despite being less well known, has actually spread far further.

Canada's history of protectionism, on the other hand (in addition to restrictions on trade between provinces), has resulted in markets that are generally less competitive than those in the large U.S. market and real wages that do not track productivity growth as closely:

Most of us aspire to conquer more and more work in less and less time, but since none of us can cram more hours into the day (despite our best efforts), increasing our productivity is the best we can do.

With a lot of offices beginning to take the «collaborative» approach to working, noise can become a significant problem, and studies have shown that more noise leads to higher degrees of stress, and less productivity as a result.

I think it went from like three weeks to less than five days, so that kind of productivity bounce is going to be huge for that market and for the markets that are surrounding it.

They applied a methodology designed to capture the income - boosting effects of shifting inputs to industries where prices are rising, and they obtained productivity estimates that are much less alarming than those produced by Statistics Canada.

In researching for his upcoming book on fulfilling work, Schulich's Burke found that Johnson & Johnson saw at least a $ 4 return on every dollar it spent on employee wellness initiatives in terms of lower health - care costs, less absenteeism and higher productivity.

Additionally, facilities that use robots tend to be more efficient and are less likely to get shut down because of their increased productivity.

Punctuality is much less important most of the time than productivity.

Mix up which type of person your employee is, and you'll get resentment and anger and less productivity.

Studies have found that remote workers are more productive — 77 percent of survey respondents reported greater productivity, and a study on work - from - home call center employees found that remote workers outperformed peers in the office because they took shorter breaks and used less sick leave.

Says Sonsoles Gonzalez, a former general manager for Pantene who left in 2011: «There was lots and lots of measuring for the purpose of promoting productivity, but it resulted in too many internal transactions and negotiations and had less to do with winning the consumer.»

The Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that productivity has only risen 1 % YOY from 2015 to 2016, much less than the typical increase experienced earlier in the decade.

We all know that music can affect our mood — pumping us up before a big event, helping us get in the productivity zone, or providing a soothing soundtrack to our lowest moments - but a stack of recent studies also shows music can affect us on an even deeper level, making us more generous and empathetic, and less biased, reports Summer Allen in Greater Good Magazine.

Given the figures in the table, it's easy to see why United's productivity gains have been recognized by investors since it does more with less and it has seen its stock price rise 45 % in one year as of April 26, 2017.

In a survey of 1,600 managers and employees, the researchers found that 83 percent of leaders and 77 percent of workers say that top performers have less stress and increased productivity because of their habits.

Workers performing at less than full productivity because of illness is estimated to cost employers $ 160 billion per year.

Can we somehow have all the productivity and efficiency gains that we think come along with this kind of workplace lifestyle, but at less personal cost?

«Even though Del Ponte gave his team members the freedom to be slightly less productive than usual in terms of hitting up their to - do lists, he was surprised to find that they actually reported increases in their productivity.

We also know a lack of sleep can wreak havoc on productivity, causing us to be less attentive, make more mistakes, process information more slowly, miss or misinterpret social and emotional cues and impair decision - making.

By loudly owning her choices, Sandberg makes it a little safer for the rest of us to declare that parents working late into the night is killer on families (Mashable points to research «that children are healthier, happier and better performing students when they eat with their families») and on personal productivity and health, making it a bit easier for those of us with less lofty positions to take back our schedules and admit that we need to work saner hours.

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.

The rest is attributable to businesses having a lot less physical capital (such as machines and software) than was anticipated, and having unexpectedly low total factor productivity (the productivity of labor and capital).

Business investment is weak except for mergers that create economies of scale, less jobs, less competition, less money available for R&D and improved productivity.

In summary, the likely results of sales - tax harmonization would be: huge savings for business, mostly unrelated to productivity - enhancing investment; slightly higher consumer prices;  lower provincial revenues; and $ 5 billion less for important federal programs.

Work flexibility supports a healthy lifestyle in a multitude of ways: less stress without a commute, increased productivity because of less in - office distraction, money savings without buying office clothes, ability to tend to children or family members needing assistance, and more.

Combining the plausible ranges of employment and productivity growth in the coming years (but ignoring the possibility of outright recession), the bounds of average U.S. economic growth over the coming 8 years range between 0.7 % annually to an extremely optimistic 3.2 % annually, with a likely midpoint of less than 2 % annually for real GDP.

New shale oil well productivity drove U.S. production higher in the last few years, with the average daily rate for the first month of operation rising from less than 100 Continue Reading

Automation, artificial intelligence and other innovations will benefit the Canadian economy by boosting productivity and living standards, but they could also have less desirable side effects on the labour market and income distribution that will have to be managed, Bank of Canada Senior Deputy Governor Carolyn A. Wilkins said today.

Boosting productivity with less staff is the Holy Grail of most businesses, recession or not.

[158] Other causes include the rise in non-cash benefits as a share of worker compensation (which aren't counted in CPS income data), immigrants entering the labor force, statistical distortions including the use of different inflation adjusters by the BLS and CPS, productivity gains being skewed toward less labor - intensive sectors, income shifting from labor to capital, a skill gap - driven wage disparity, productivity being falsely inflated by hidden technology - driven depreciation increases and import price measurement problems, and / or a natural period of adjustment following an income surge during aberrational postwar circumstances.

However, while demographic shifts are fairly predictable, it is less clear how much of the decline in productivity growth reflects a structural change and how much is a cyclical response to the subdued recovery.

Unlock the secret productivity weapons of Tim Ferriss, Seth Godin, Pat Flynn and other top - performing entrepreneurs to get more done in less time.

And employers enjoying the benefits of higher productivity stand to be less stressed out too.

Having enhanced workforce productivity came in second (51 percent), while the goal of having less employees call in sick came in third (48 percent).

Remember that in terms of «debt productivity» each additional dollar of debt has less and less impact on GDP growth as a larger percentage of the new debt has to be used to service the existing debt.

It resulted in more productivity, less injuries for people and better quality of birds.»

This approach is conveniently less expensive, because productivity research is now usually a joint effort between governments and multi-national corporations who have a product to sell to farmers as a result of the research, for example genetically modified crop varieties.

Current research shows that focusing all of our attention on one task at a time before turning all of our attention to the next task may lend itself to greater productivity with less stress.

If a working mom is preoccupied and stressed, she may be less efficient at her job and possibly prone to mistakes that need correcting or more likel to have a slowed rate of productivity.

«In other words,» Hawkins said, «half of American workers now make less than the 1968 minimum wage had the minimum wage kept pace with productivity gains.

In the North, African - Americans trace their roots to the «Great Migration», (and less intense versions of that movement of people before and after that wave of migration), mostly to industrial cities seeking factory jobs, at the height of the U.S. industrial economy that declined starting around the 1970s and has continued to decline in employment but not productivity, partially due to automation and partially due to offshoring of jobs to lower wage, less regulated countries.

Common sense should therefore make Manasseh know that it takes a focused person with great vision to go for a loan and invest it in infrastructure to create the condition for increased productivity to make payment of the loan easy and less stressful.

Because our nation's productivity is no more and no less than the combined talents and efforts of the people of these islands.

«Nothing less will ensure the viability and productivity of the Hudson River for future generations.»

The simulations suggested that the indirect effects of increased CO2 on net primary productivity (how much carbon dioxide vegetation takes in during photosynthesis minus how much carbon dioxide the plants release during respiration) are large and variable, ranging from less than 10 per cent to more than 100 per cent of the size of direct effects.

«Plots with many species are much less prone to big dives in productivity from year to year,» says Peter Reich, a coauthor of the study and a professor of ecology at the University of Minnesota.