Sentences with phrase «where labor costs»

Much of that economic output is a result of American and European companies shifting manufacturing to places where labor costs are lower.

But publishers and online retailers warn that when Amazon expands its retail offerings, it will struggle to replicate its efficient business model in Brazil, where labor costs are high, taxes complex and less than 20 percent of roads are paved.

«It's no secret to anyone working in American business today that many jobs have been lost as a result of shifting activity to largely foreign areas where labor costs are lower than in this country.»

As an alternative to overpacking landfills or recycling domestically, some industrialized countries have found it more convenient and cheaper to export e-waste to developing countries, such as China and India, where labor costs are low, and occupational and environmental laws are lax or not well implemented.

For example, General Electric shut down a profitable and stable flat iron plant in California and opened iron plants in Singapore, Mexico and Brazil, where labor costs are many times cheaper.

IT Outsourcing / Web development Outsourcing - Increasingly, companies are outsourcing web development to third - parties in countries where labor costs for this technical work are lower.

And then comes the following question, through productivity, if you achieve productivity and you are able to cut costs so that you can stay ahead of the game where labor costs are rising ahead of the GDP, then what happens in terms of unemployment or creating job opportunities for those people that now are seeking alternative employment methods because of productivity coming into the game?

Not exact matches

The challenge for managers will be to identify where automation could transform their organizations, and then figure out where to unlock value, given the cost of replacing human labor with machines and the complexity of adapting business processes to a changed workplace.

«I've got two lawsuits right now where it may cost us mid-six-figures because there's not enough labor out there to get it done,» said one contractor in the North Dallas area who declined to be identified.

Costs would be the cost of hosting (and additional web - builders if we got to the point where we would need more labor than just myself) and revenue would come in from the doctor offices paying their start - up and monthly fees...

-- it will face continued margin pressures «due to higher labor content in certain areas of manufacturing where we have temporarily dialed back automation, as well as higher material costs from recently imposed tariffs, commodity price increases and a weaker US dollar.»

CEO Jason Goldberg has said those cuts were meant to streamline staffing and costs as the business shifted from a labor - intensive flash - sale model, where tons of new products had to be sourced and prepped every day, to a more standard e-commerce shop with predictable inventory needs.

Offshoring to countries where labor is inexpensive will invariably result in cost savings, but the distance and language barriers may affect the quality of the work product.

Goldberg has said past layoffs at Fab were necessary cost reductions as he shifted the company's focus from a labor - intensive flash - sale model, where tons of new products had to be sourced and prepped every day, to a more standard e-commerce shop with predictable inventory needs.

Where any customer issue is not caused by our negligence or oversight, we reserve the right to recover reasonable administrative costs spent addressing the customer issue, including costs related to technology deployed to address the customer's issue and compensation provided for our customer service representative's labor hours.

While the deal allowed US manufacturers to lower costs and compete with Asian factories, it also led companies to move thousands of factory jobs to Mexico, where labor is cheaper.

The dominant modern industries which set the tone for the world system are retained in the U.S., where the large investments required are safest and where the high cost of skilled labor is not a problem because of the limited proportion of labor required by these advanced industries.

In districts where the F / R ratio is not as unbalanced, the labor costs could actually be shared between the two programs because the same «lunch ladies» are serving both groups.

And concern over the slashing of teachers must be tempered by the years - long labor - management standoff that brought us the unforgivable waste of the «rubber rooms,» where teachers accused of wrongdoing would sit for weeks on end, doing no work - at a cost to the city of $ 30 million a year.

In Westchester County, where all eight labor contracts have expired, the executive, Robert P. Astorino, a Republican, has sought to have union members pay a share of their health care costs.

«It's an across - the - board substantial increase in labor costs in a city where it is already extremely expensive to do business,» said Robert Bookman of the Council N.Y. Nightlife Association.

He is studying ways of automating the process, and Sanaria may move its production facilities to developing countries, where the vaccine could be produced less expensively because labor costs are lower.

University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences researchers have found a new way to detect immature citrus 83 percent of the time, which lets growers know where to apply fertilizer and water and perhaps save on labor costs for the $ 10.9 billion a year Florida industry.

Martha Keating, Labor Relations Consultant for the Rochester Teachers Association, says a new scoring system is in place where teachers can accumulate up to 100 points, «Never before has there been a prescribed rating that the observation evaluation counts this much and the state tests count this much and if there was local testing it would cost this much, but the law imposed that on all of the districts in NY State.»

No matter what Fiat Chrysler ends up building in place of the Ram HD in Saltillo, it makes great economic sense to move the big, high profit margin model back to the U.S., where that margin can easily eat the higher labor costs.

I don't know about the laws where you are, but most states in the U.S. require the mechanic to get approval from the customer before doing anything that will cost the customer money, else-wise the customer is getting free labor and materials.

2 - Editing the book 3 - Graphics and layout 4 - Production 5 - Distribution 6 - Marketing 7 - Sales 8 - Remuneration I analyzed my labor / capabilities / cost against «buying» those functions where it was a prudent business decision.

The low end of the range can be as inexpensive as $ 50 - 75 (though we have never heard of the procedure preformed this inexpensively in Georgia) while vets in major metropolitan areas, where rent and labor costs are high, usually charge several hundred dollars.

This is astronomically more likely to occur in developed countries with high labor costs where it is cheaper to fork over your room and board than to pay a hired laborer the minimum wage.

Electric expenses: The cost of labor, material, and expenses incurred in operating a facility's prime movers, generators, auxiliary apparatus, switching gear, and other electric equipment for each of the points where electricity enters the transmission or distribution grid.

Now someone please tell me why anyone is going to want to make anything, green or not, in California when they can make it next door in Nevada or Arizona, or Mexico (or in China like most everyone else), where they don't have cap and trade costs, onerous labor laws, overpriced housing, traffic jams 24 × 7 (like in LA), etc..

It won't grow in the US (except Hawaii, maybe south Florida), but the places where it does grow (indonesia, Maylasia) have low labor costs, so buying it from there is a good choice economically.

For example, does the cost of a product reflect where it was made, how it was made, what the people who made the product were paid for their labor, the greenhouse gas emissions associated with the shipping of the product and the cost associated with discarding the product at the end of its useful life (among other variables)?

In a world where advanced knowledge is widespread and low - cost labor is readily available, U.S. advantages in the marketplace and in science and technology have begun to erode.

National residential «soft cost» averages drop as the solar market opens up in several states with lower labor and transaction costs compared to some of the incumbent big solar states like California (where costs have been closer to $ 3.70 Watt (dc)-RRB-.

The brute - force, labor intensive legal delivery model is being replaced by a digitized one where repetitive tasks are automated; products are replacing many services; delivery cycles are compressed; costs are reduced and / or proportionate to supply and demand; and lawyers are deployed to perform tasks that require differentiated judgment, skills, or knowledge and / or working from more efficient, lower - cost tech - enabled delivery models.

• Install new plumbing systems of water, gas, steam, heat, drainage, sewage and maintain existing systems • Inspect pipes and joints of boilers, heaters, valves, pumps, sinks, commodes, tanks, and related components to locate malfunctions • Estimate plumbing labor and material costs • Respond quickly to plumbing fault calls • Prepare documentation to obtain plumbing permits where required • Transport plumbing materials to and from worksites • Use the computer for tracking assignments • Perform routine maintenance of plumbing equipment

The analysis identified markets where renters earn in excess of the necessary income to support costs of living, taking into account indicators such as «labor market velocity,» «job listings,» «salaries,» and «rental housing costs.»

I actually think that tenant retention is something landlords ignore at their peril, when turnovers are where most of the costs and labor come from in managing rentals.

Manufactured homes serve many housing needs in a wide range of communities — from rural areas where housing alternatives (rental or purchase) are few and construction labor is scarce and / or costly, to higher - cost metropolitan areas.