Sentences with phrase «of great workers»

«The agonizing decision to lay off hundreds of our great workers and reduce hours and pay for others was the most difficult one I have had to make in my time as Blue Bell's CEO and President,» Kruse said.

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«The first thing to keep in mind is that, in some long run equilibrium, wage inflation should be equal to what the growth rate of productivity is — so how much workers can produce — and the increase in prices for the goods they produce,» he said at the UBS Greater China conference in Shanghai.

Due to the number of seasonal workers in Canada, there is naturally a great deal of seasonality in the data, so it is helpful to look at year - over-year numbers.

I think HSAs are a great innovation, and not simply because they provide employers with a way of buying cheaper coverage for their workers at a time when health care costs continue to rise.

«It would be a great gesture of goodwill for the prime minister to make ahead of negotiations but equally it's good for our businesses... This is what I hear about day in, day out,» he added, noting that the U.K. government could offer this to EU workers unilaterally despite having been rebuked earlier by the trading bloc in an attempt to agree a deal on this issue ahead of full Brexit negotiations.

As long as you make a conscious effort to adjust those habits to maximize the productivity and happiness of the entire team, you'll turn yourself into a great boss, and your company and your workers will be happier as a result.

On average an employee will spend a total of three months recuperating, bottom line; you'll lose money and quite possibly, a great worker.

PartnerHero uses Slack, video chat, coworking spaces, and a variety of other modern options to match workers with startups they're a great fit for.

Those conversations can help to solve existing problems facing those workers, or promote interpersonal connections and a greater sense of teamwork.

The TPP is highly contentious, as it would foster greater trade with countries such as Malaysia and Vietnam, which can pay workers an hourly wage of less than 50 cents.

In a study of 16 countries, Americans had the greatest disconnect on the income gap, believing that top executives make about 30 times more than average workers.

And the greater Des Moines area faces a shortage of 60,000 workers over the next six years, according to the Des Moines Partnership, the area's economic and community development organization (which kindly helped Inc.com arrange this forum).

In Beijing, where the official commercial vacancy rate is 30 % but approaches 50 % in many pockets, developers go to great lengths to make empty buildings look occupied, going so far as to paint silhouettes of office workers in stairwells.

In reality, a scene set on farmers» fields across the country should show that a great deal of agricultural work in Canada is done by racialized minorities, both Canadian and temporary foreign workers.

It, like everyone, was hit hard by recession, and did what a lot of companies did: dramatically reduced costs, laid off workers, raised prices, and went back to customers and said, «I'm sorry we can't honor this contract...» The response from Wall Street was, «Wow, you've done a great job managing your costs!»

Not only do companies want to draw from an educated pool of workers, they want to offer their employees a great place to raise a family.

Kim Peters, an executive vice president at the Great Place to Work Institute, which produces the rankings, says that Whole Foods consistently stands out for several reasons: its willingness to let people's individuality shine through, the sense of teamwork it fosters, employees» belief in the company's mission and purpose, and its propensity for developing workers through cross-training and other means.

In the meantime, the Great Recession and hiring downturn have produced an oversupply of skilled specialized workers who are offering up their services outside of established organizations.

But organizations that are proactive in these key areas are positioning themselves to avoid lawsuits, attract a greater number of talented workers and continue to grow their businesses.

She'd also provide greater protections for contract workers in the «gig» economy, while supporting the innovations of companies such as Airbnb and Uber, which have built that new sector.

The actual state of knowledge of the impact that the minimum wage has on employment in North America, and especially in Québec, leads to the conclusion that a minimum wage that is greater than 50 % of the average wage is harmful to small wage earners and that a minimum wage that is less than 45 % has very little risk for this group of workers.

In an era of small businesses and startups, however, benefits packages are considered extras, with workers sometimes forced to choose between higher pay and costly health insurance premiums or lower pay for the ability to provide great medical insurance for their families.

Add to that the changing trends we see in the workplace with more remote workers, big economy workers, people that have different perspectives, all of that leads to a greater need to get employees engaged.

Emergency officials said hundreds of residents, along with workers at a silica mine and the Lizard Island resort on the Great Barrier Reef had been evacuated.

Ninety - eight percent of workers called the workplace a «great atmosphere,» while 95 percent said the facilities contribute to a good working environment.

According to Peter Trebek, CEO of GoTranscript, «Pairing a newbie with a more experienced worker is a great way help your staff learn from each other and identify good or bad habits early on.

Many states point with great pride to the quality and availability of their workers, as well as government - sponsored programs to train them.

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.

According to a new study for the Labor Department conducted by Sanat Monica, California - based nonprofit research firm the RAND Corporation, nearly half of U.S. employers with a minimum of 50 workers offered workplace wellness programs in 2012, while 90 percent of companies with greater than 50,000 workers offered the programs over the same period.

Senior employees may not find the idea of every worker receiving unlimited vacation days very rewarding — after all, they worked hard for their positions within the company, and may feel they deserve greater perks than new hires.

There's great stuff in chapters like «A New Kind of Worker» (learning to learn, teamwork) and «Spreading the Word» (value marketing).

Peabody's problems have only expanded so far in 2015: Forecasting greater losses than originally anticipated, the company reduced its dividend, laid off workers and even cut the salaries of its top executives temporarily in a desperate attempt to keep the company afloat.

Because the New York metro area — including all five boroughs, not just super-expensive Manhattan — has a huge population and a relatively high vacancy rate, an influx of even 50,000 new workers wouldn't mean much in the greater scheme of things.

Luisa Gagliardi of the University of Geneva studied more than one million housing transactions in British cities between 1995 and 2001 and found that highly educated workers» «consumption of amenities» — restaurant meals, park visits, etc. — was 10 % greater than that of less educated workers who earned the same income.

We must remain committed to education, retraining, and help for displaced workers... We need to help displaced workers make ends meet between jobs and move people quickly on to the next opportunity... [C] ommunity colleges do a great job of providing the right skills to workers and the right workers for firms.

The conventional wisdom in the economics community is that the labor force participation rate would have continued to decline even if the great recession never occurred, because as the nation ages the share of retired workers would grow.

Well — amid a resurgent U.S. job market checked by a quickly evaporating pool of low - skilled workers — it turns out that Trump's great wall may be the last thing the economy needs.

Surveys conducted of the 50 Best Workplaces for Recent Graduates found teams substantially more likely to say they can count on colleagues to cooperate, as well as a greater willingness to go the extra mile to do their jobs, compared to workers at peer companies.

Meanwhile, other studies suggest that profit sharing may not be such a great motivator for the majority of workers.

These employers have earned high marks from their workers, who completed an extensive workplace culture and trust index survey administered by Great Place to Work, Fortune's longtime partner for our annual list of the 100 Best Companies to Work For.

Of course, wanting more overtime doesn't prove that things are great at the factories; it just proves that workers want more money than they make during a regular workday.

Dwivedi says Quebec, which already struggles to retain its immigrants, would also face an even greater exodus of workers.

First, the number of Jews who can be thought of as threatening non-Jewish control of U.S. industry is not so large as the Jewish population estimate of 1933 would suggest: the great mass of the 4,500,000 American Jews, like the great mass of American non-Jews, is made up of workers, employed or unemployed, to whom the control of U.S. industry is a purely academic matter.

Starting from the most recent 2014 report (which contains data from 2013) and working backwards through all the available studies, we find that the number of these workers has shrunk somewhat, though there is a great deal of year - to - year volatility:

Fred Morley, executive vice-president of the Greater Halifax Partnership, said despite the dire news, these workers have a good chance of finding jobs at other information technology firms in the Halifax area.

A recent Deloitte survey focused on Canadian workplaces found that just over half of gen Y workers felt they were «part of a great organization,» a slightly higher number than their more jaded older colleagues.

But whatever happened in the boardrooms of Apple, his next piece of advice is a valuable one for any good leader who wants to surround themselves with top talent and retain those skilled workers: «If you want to hire great people and want them to stay working for you, you have to let them make a lot of decisions and you have to be run by ideas, and not hierarchy.»

This autonomy not only leads to a more positive guest experience — a must in the ruthlessly customer - centric hospitality business — it also reduces internal bureaucracy and bestows a greater sense of empowerment on front - line workers.

Even as the Great Recession slowly recedes, STEM workers at every stage of the career pipeline, from freshly minted grads to mid - and late - career Ph.D. s, still struggle to find employment as many companies, including Boeing, IBM, and Symantec, continue to lay off thousands of STEM workers.

Mike Moffatt said: «Greater business investment increases worker productivity — which increases wages — and expands the number of jobs.»