Sentences with phrase «of fewer workers»

Still, he added, «technology is giving the consumer a much better product — much cheaper, much faster, more alternatives — but at the expense of fewer workers, and we have to find ways for companies to create jobs as well as profits.»

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DHAMRAI, Bangladesh — A few hundred workers, activists and relatives of victims of a 2013 garment factory collapse in Bangladesh that killed 1,134 people and left thousands injured held a rally Tuesday as the country marked the fifth anniversary of the disaster.

Financial advisors say workers who are already close to retirement probably will witness fewer dramatic changes to the structure of Social Security and Medicare than younger workers like millennials.

A core tenet of employee engagement is that there are few things more motivating to most workers than being heard; it's hard to imagine even the most jaded desk jockey wouldn't feel a little bit chuffed when the person at the top of the org chart looks her in the eyes and asks her what she thinks.

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Fully 29 percent of adult workers at companies with fewer than 25 employees were uninsured in 2007.

Unfortunately, few outsourced staff members get the same treatment even though, as a former contract worker myself, I can attest to the value of a thank - you.

The co-founder of Phone2Action, a civic - engagement startup based in Washington, D.C., had helped a few of her 65 employees obtain visas, but now the DHS was retroactively reviewing one worker's status.

Even more impressive, companies with fewer than 20 workers account for 90 percent of all U.S. companies.

A wide range of people — including software and hardware engineers, management information scientists, executives, mid-level workers, and secretaries — are just a few of the people that use office automation on a daily basis.

Here are a few considerations that I hope will help each of us to design and deliver a workplace that fits the way employees operate in the 21st century, and which will allow us to attract, connect, engage, and delight Millennial workers and optimize our company cultures for productivity, engagement, and results:

PHILIPPINES: A few thousand left - wing activists and laborers marched and held noisy rallies to press for higher wages and an end to temporary contractual jobs that deprive workers of many benefits.

The «a happy worker is a productive worker» cliche may be false, but customer service is one of the few industries where it is true - you need people who are happy to help and to provide genuine service, not simply gritting their teeth and pretending to smile.

«No surprise, since they are good at only awarding an «elite few» — aka the upper management, and not the entire population of frontline workers.»

Canada has one of the youngest populations in the G7, even as it rapidly ages as more people hit retirement age with fewer replacement workers available as a result of low birth rates.

At the height of China «s real estate boom in Yulin a few years ago, they made 10,000 yuan a month, running a canteen for construction workers.

According to 2012 U.S. Census Bureau data, businesses with fewer than 20 workers made up 89.6 percent of American businesses, and firms with fewer than 500 workers described 99.7 percent of businesses.

A University of Iowa study found that workers who were provided with a portable pedalling device under their desk were able to concentrate better at work, more likely to report weight loss and take fewer sick days than co-workers who pedalled less.

In September, the department store, which has been beset by 11 straight quarters of comparable sales declines, said it would hire 80,000 temporary workers for the holiday season, the second year in a row it was taking on fewer seasonal associates.

Forty - five percent of those surveyed by NFIB said they found few or no qualified workers to fill open positions, which is 3 percentage points higher than September a year earlier, and 4 percentage points higher than the same time period in both 2013 and 2012.

If our firms become less competitive, they will hire fewer workers or layoff existing workers, or both, and the costs of goods for American consumers will go up as well.

Uber, Homejoy, Spoonrocket, and Taskrabbit are the names of just a few Silicon Valley startups that rely entirely on contract workers to make their businesses fly.

«A few cosmetic changes to the form and rollout of the travel order do not change its original intent,» said a statement from Tech Stands Up, a grassroots group of tech industry workers that was formed after President Trump's initial immigration order, which was halted in federal court.

But it's not like we've stopped growing massive amounts of food; it's just that we've figured out how to do it with far fewer workers.

Cardoza - James, which employed up to 75 people in its heyday of the 1980s, had only a few workers early last year.

Over the past few years, businesses have added 14 million jobs as regional economies have rebounded; their workers have gained access to health insurance, and a new flock of startups has brought economy - altering innovations, some of which have changed the nature of work itself.

When he assumed the position last June, he promised to slash costs while raising service levels, and he's moved quickly on both fronts: fewer train crews go to work each day, thousands of workers have already been turfed, and CP's remaining fleet is pulling heavier loads.

Fewer than a third of American workers are giving it their all on the job.

Like Sachs, Whippman believes that «there are many reasons why life in America is likely to produce anxiety compared with other developed nations: long working hours without paid vacation time for many, insecure employment conditions with little legal protection for workers, inequality, and the lack of universal health care coverage, to name a few,» but she stresses that our «happiness - seeking culture» is also part of the problem.

It's not too hard to understand why workers might like this plan; it offers them the ultimate flexibility: Instead of running out or cramming vacations into the last few weeks of the year, vacation days can be taken at any time.

Nearly 35 percent of companies with fewer than 50 workers also were offering insurance.

One common device: rules mandating that workers with more than a few bucks» worth of stock be paid off over five years or more.

That means fewer workers to support the ever - expanding population of elderly: The number of people in the workforce is expected to decline by about 20 % to 63.4 million in 2035.

The retirement of the baby boomers will leave the country with fewer economic actors, and the workers who remain aren't productive enough to make up for the lost output.

As has been pointed out by several observers of Fowler's claims over the past few days (to the genuine surprise of many) an HR department's primary allegiance is to the company, not to its workers.

With fewer workers, contractors are becoming wary of signing new work contracts, especially as many of them include fines for not completing a job by a designated date.

However, it appears many small business owners are instead focusing on slow and steady growth, and driving up productivity to increase margins with the use of technology, fewer workers, and more hours.

Another paid attention to which patients seemed to have few visitors or none at all, and would make sure to double back to spend some time with them... What these workers were doing, Wrzesniewski came to realize, was quietly creating the work that they wanted to do out of the work that they had been assigned — work they found meaningful and worthwhile.

Few could have imagined before he took office that the birthplace of the United Auto Workers union would become a right - to - work state, but that is exactly what happened last year after Snyder pushed the legislation through in 2012.

It's a small, but fast - growing, niche that's making inroads in a number of ways — such as providing an alternative to overseas outsourcing while offering jobs in domestic areas that often have few employment options, particularly for skilled workers or those with college degrees.

On the other hand, the investor known as the Oracle of Omaha predicted that AI and automation could create «huge problems in terms of democracy» as we know it, as people attempt to adjust to an economy that needs far fewer human workers to be just as productive.

Nearly half of workers engage in two or fewer of the six healthy behaviors researchers asked about, including 8 percent who say they do none of those things.

When the healthcare workers were charged $ 99 a year for an hour a week of personal training, customers went the first few months but then their usage tended to trail off.

In a random sampling of public opinion taken by the Forum Poll among 1,385 Canadians 18 years of age and older, the majority (51 %) do not agree Canadian employers should be able to hire temporary foreign workers (a federal program which has just been curtailed), while fewer than this agree (45 %).

For example, canceling orders of Boeing aircraft (China accounts for nearly 12 percent of Boeing's sales in 2015) will have no adverse impact since Boeing employs few workers in China and Beijing can buy from Airbus.

The most recent ADP payroll report, for instance, saw businesses with fewer than 50 employees add 84,000 workers in June, or 45 percent of the 188,000 total private - sector jobs added in the month.

A salary structure in which you (the owner) and maybe a few top executives monopolize most of the goodies will count as a serious negative, as will a history of workplace - safety violations, employee - discrimination lawsuits, or a disgruntled - employee Web site that details significant worker discontent among your ranks.

Instead, he allows his workers to recover from the rigors of the summer by working eight - hour days the rest of the year and taking a few extra days off.

Here are just a few of many excuses managers often give for keeping workers chained to an office desk, wrong as they may be.

Besides truly gorgeous office spaces, Google provides its workers with a lot of perks, and some former Googlers, and a few who are still with the company, listed their favorite benefits on Quora.