Sentences with phrase «reduce worker productivity»

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This isn't the first time campaigners have called for a post-Super Bowl holiday, for reasons ranging from reducing drunk - driving accidents to improving worker morale and boosting productivity.

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.

Factory farming and the combine harvester increased labour productivity in the farming sector and reduced the need for agricultural workers.

By: Marleny Arnoldi 26th January 2018 For operational sustainability in the mining industry, mining decisionmakers need to take a proactive approach to protect and promote worker health, supporting productivity and to reduce legal liabilities associated with occupational disease.

Mobile Material Handlers are designed to increase productivity by lifting and lowering product to reduce worker strain in today's harsh industrial environments.

«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.»

Yet raising the price of alcohol is more likely to benefit the economy than harm it, by reducing the productivity costs associated with workers» harmful alcohol consumption.

Far from boosting productivity, the constant flow of messages and information can seriously reduce a person's ability to focus on tasks, this study of office workers found.

However, studies have shown5 that a company that values work - life balance benefits from increased worker productivity, reduced turnover, increased engagement, and greater employee motivation, commitment, and loyalty.

Increase productivity, reduce overhead; improve worker retention, control the costs of turnover; uptrain your workforce to stay abreast new standards and technologies, but mitigate the cost of constant workflow disruptions and technology acquisitions.

Among them are deleterious effects on children of unregulated and often substandard childcare; [9] lost productivity for employers due to parents missing work to handle gaps in childcare or to care for a sick child; [10] lost wages and reduced retirement benefits for parents who have to drop out of the labor market to provide at - home care for their young children; [11] a substantial downward pressure on the wages of childcare workers with effects on the quality and stability of the childcare workforce; [12] and lost opportunities for further education, [13] college savings, and other investments that working parents could make in themselves and their children but can not afford because they are spending most or all of their disposable income on childcare.

Third, researchers have suggested that technological change may play a role in changing labor and profit shares, either by increasing the productivity of capital, or by increasing the rate of worker's obsolescence and thereby reducing their bargaining power.»

The title refers to the term Slowdown, an industrial action in which workers reduce productivity and efficiency - a measure that is seen as less risky and costly for workers and unions than a real strike.

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.

Since a large body of evidence links pollution with poor health, and health is an important part of human capital, efforts to reduce pollution could plausibly be viewed as an investment in human capital and thus a tool for promoting economic growth... We find robust evidence that ozone levels well below federal air quality standards have a significant impact on productivity: a 10 ppb decrease in ozone concentrations increases worker productivity by 4.2 percent.

And incorporating efficiency also brings many other benefits including improved comfort, health, and worker productivity, reduced energy burdens, new jobs, expanded economic development, and increased grid resilience.

Effectively increase worker productivity by successfully reducing absenteeism and equipment downtime, and provide cost reduction initiatives that effectively lower insurance premiums and Workers» Compensation payments, and preventing any regulatory fines by establishing a safe and healthy work environment.

Developed new orientation program that successfully boosted productivity and reduced Workers» Compensation expenses.

As well, workers are less likely to be absent due to illness, which has the dual benefit of reducing lost productivity and reducing costs associated with health benefits.