Sentences with phrase «productivity boost of»

And for those that do embrace automation for physical tasks, the report predicts an average productivity boost of about 1 percent a year.

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With younger employees pushing for more mobility and flexibility, and companies seeing productivity gains from teams working while on the move, it's no wonder that 71 % of Canadian firms in a recent ICT Council survey said boosting mobile adoption was a priority.

They feature nature heavily, taking note from the science of biophilia, which helps boost productivity and creativity.

It is an effective way to boost the morale and health of your employees, and ultimately productivity and success.

Experiments in Sweden are proving that giving staff equal pay for fewer hours of work might actually boost productivity

The goal of boosting productivity is to increase households» purchasing power.

But breaks are an important part of the workday, and can actually boost productivity when taken as real breaks — not just continued work with the addition of food.

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

7 Insanely Productive Habits of Successful Young Entrepreneurs From braving a brisk shower to taking a mindful hike, there are several small but mighty tweaks you can make to your schedule to boost your overall productivity.

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.

By tapping the expertise of colleges and universities, companies can boost staff skills and productivity and stay ahead of the competition.

The overall effect of higher interest rates in the simulation is to boost the level of productivity by around 1 or 2 % relative to the baseline.

Reams of research indicates a quick cat nap of 20 - minutes or so can seriously boost your productivity.

Whether it's to improve productivity, to make better use of what time they have, or to boost their overall health and wellness, people try to use the new year to wipe the slate clean.

From unlocking opportunities to boosting productivity to corporate storytelling, this episode of Entrepreneur Radio covers an array of topics with Steve Sims, Tali Sharot and Chase Jarvis.

It will not be easy, but China's future «economic miracle» will lie in its ability to boost productivity and its use of big data and Internet technology to stimulate domestic consumption and generate exponential development opportunities,» wrote Ma.

A culture of advancement also encourages team members to work harder, which boosts productivity, fosters innovation, cultivates loyalty and keeps employees focused on business goals.

I found the addition of the tablet's fingerprint sensor for secure access convenient (it works with the handy password manager 1Password) and a productivity boost.

On the organizational level, positive delusion can be a morale boost for your team, as it provides momentum, which is also great source of productivity.

In a paper released today at the Mowat Centre, I advocate for the selective elimination of tariffs — taxes — on imported goods as a way to boost Canadian productivity.

By recognizing the needs of a diverse workforce and incorporating some distraction - free zones into your office, you can achieve a balance that promotes collaboration, boosts productivity and keeps employees happy.

Choosing to release the hyper vigilance of being constantly connected creates allows you to live life in real time, resulting in fresh perspectives and a boost in productivity.

Patrik Schöwitz, a global strategist of multi-asset solutions for J.P. Morgan Asset Management, forecasts that technology will boost productivity so significantly, U.S. GDP could nearly double on those gains alone.

Of course such an arrangement won't work in all environments, but there are many where the only thing stopping such a potentially productivity - boosting change is tradition and inertia.

Besides those productivity - boosting investments, Kuepfer, who sees himself as something of an inventor, moved to protect his U.S. market share by honing his product offering.

Aromatherapy probably isn't the first tool you think of to help boost your productivity and grow your business, but maybe it should be.

First of all, anything that boosts productivity is a positive for both the oil industry and the environment — if DOE has indeed found a better recipe for upgraded heavy oil, Alberta's producers will be happy to take it up (if the economics and P.R. opportunity of using more efficient, cleaner technology weren't enough, the province's carbon price gives them a further incentive).

To see what is on the horizon in terms of data being used to boost productivity, we checked out a range of new devices on display at CES this year to help you focus, de-stress, sleep and manage life's little details.

It's the combination of boosted productivity and reduced costs that Moss and his co-founders believe will convince employers to care about workplace happiness.

An Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development report a few years ago concluded that «a key cause of the underlying fall in manufacturing employment everywhere is rapid productivity growth, whether by restructuring inefficient plants or deploying skills, knowledge, technology and new processes to boost efficiency.»

The build - up leading to the visit, along with my «side quest» adventures, has made my business trips much more anticipated, boosted my productivity, and allowed me to get my mind off of work so that I could crank out the emails once I got back to my cramped hotel room.

That's promising news for companies keen to use the technology both as a nifty show of bleeding - edge clout and as a bona fide way to boost productivity.

Implement a few of these strategies for boosting company morale, and your company will reap numerous benefits, ranging from greater employee satisfaction to increased productivity, ultimately leading to happier customers — which in turn boosts your bottom line.

Current planning and policy facilitates this transition, but the longer - run challenges of boosting productivity in services has not really been addressed.

Cutting down on meetings at the start of your week can be a good turbo - boost to the productivity you need.

According to their website, CultureRx claimed that ROWE helped Best Buy teams save $ 2.2 million over three years by reducing turnover by 90 percent and boosting productivity by an average of 41 percent.

The range of experience, expertise, and working methods that a diverse workplace offers can boost problem - solving capacity and lead to greater productivity.

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.

If the Fed were to continue hiking rates based on the current low rate of productivity growth for fear that inflation would accelerate, that would tend to keep productivity growth permanently depressed by preventing wage pressures from pushing businesses to investment in productivity boosting technologies.

In other words, rather than productivity advances being the cause of higher real wages, the reverse may be true: Higher labor costs that crimp the profits share and boost the labor share are a necessary condition for higher investment rates which in turn will lead to higher productivity growth.

Caroline Webb, the founder of Sevenshift, studies how behavioral science can boost effectiveness and productivity.

But we don't count those foreign jobs when we calculate productivity (and the deduction to GDP on account of imports is generally smaller than the corresponding loss of U.S. employment), so foreign outsourcing has the effect of boosting measured productivity.

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.

Eliminating majority of import tariffs would boost productivity for relatively low cost.

A national tax system for goods and services has replaced an inefficient structure of myriad rates and payments, offering the potential to boost productivity.

So if there are policies that would boost potential output — the sum of labour force growth and productivity growth — then we need to pursue them.

During 1950 - 2000, cash flows exceeded expectations as technology and management process improvements boosted productivity, generating 0.2 % (1.7 %) of U.S. (U.K.) ex post annualized equity risk premium.

The key argument of leading «salt water» Keynesian economists like Paul Krugman, Joe Stiglitz and Larry Summers is that governments can and should drive faster growth through deficit financed public infrastructure investment, which would boost short - term growth and also raise productivity and longer term growth prospects.

The best place to put the money is in anything that will boost productivity, whether that's a platform to automate part of your team's process or an investment in a more expensive vendor or supplier.