Sentences with phrase «with less productivity»

Do you work on multiple projects in a day and ending up with less productivity or more errors?

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The IMF economists also left Canada with the impression the country was less than serious about improving productivity.

With a lot of offices beginning to take the «collaborative» approach to working, noise can become a significant problem, and studies have shown that more noise leads to higher degrees of stress, and less productivity as a result.

Today, the people who run the most successful companies have learned that helping workers balance their lives on the job and off results in a healthy environment with less stress, much higher productivity, and much lower employee turnover.

Says Sonsoles Gonzalez, a former general manager for Pantene who left in 2011: «There was lots and lots of measuring for the purpose of promoting productivity, but it resulted in too many internal transactions and negotiations and had less to do with winning the consumer.»

Given the figures in the table, it's easy to see why United's productivity gains have been recognized by investors since it does more with less and it has seen its stock price rise 45 % in one year as of April 26, 2017.

People who scored high on the productivity assessment were 10 times less likely to agree with statements such as «I live in a mess — cluttered office, buried desk, disorganized home» and «I often feel distracted.

Can we somehow have all the productivity and efficiency gains that we think come along with this kind of workplace lifestyle, but at less personal cost?

By loudly owning her choices, Sandberg makes it a little safer for the rest of us to declare that parents working late into the night is killer on families (Mashable points to research «that children are healthier, happier and better performing students when they eat with their families») and on personal productivity and health, making it a bit easier for those of us with less lofty positions to take back our schedules and admit that we need to work saner hours.

Compared with people at low - trust companies, people at high - trust companies report: 74 % less stress, 106 % more energy at work, 50 % higher productivity, 13 % fewer sick days, 76 % more engagement, 29 % more satisfaction with their lives, 40 % less burnout.

Combining the plausible ranges of employment and productivity growth in the coming years (but ignoring the possibility of outright recession), the bounds of average U.S. economic growth over the coming 8 years range between 0.7 % annually to an extremely optimistic 3.2 % annually, with a likely midpoint of less than 2 % annually for real GDP.

New shale oil well productivity drove U.S. production higher in the last few years, with the average daily rate for the first month of operation rising from less than 100 Continue Reading

Companies with 1,000 employees or less, in any location, can lower their costs and improve their productivity.

Boosting productivity with less staff is the Holy Grail of most businesses, recession or not.

The Stress - Tolerant Rice for Africa and South Asia Project: producing more with less to increase productivity and improve lives

With 436 factories in 85 countries making products sold in 189 countries, the company aims to improve resource efficiency, quality and productivity in our operations to do more with fewer resources and less waWith 436 factories in 85 countries making products sold in 189 countries, the company aims to improve resource efficiency, quality and productivity in our operations to do more with fewer resources and less wawith fewer resources and less waste.

Current research shows that focusing all of our attention on one task at a time before turning all of our attention to the next task may lend itself to greater productivity with less stress.

«In other words,» Hawkins said, «half of American workers now make less than the 1968 minimum wage had the minimum wage kept pace with productivity gains.

Common sense should therefore make Manasseh know that it takes a focused person with great vision to go for a loan and invest it in infrastructure to create the condition for increased productivity to make payment of the loan easy and less stressful.

Fox and Mohapatra (2007) found that productivity is positively correlated with collaboration with faculty members outside a scientist's university and to a lesser degree with faculty members inside the home department.

«Plots with many species are much less prone to big dives in productivity from year to year,» says Peter Reich, a coauthor of the study and a professor of ecology at the University of Minnesota.

In Spain, there have been several years with less rain than normal, and according to a recent report by Unión de Pequeños Agricultores y Ganaderos (union of small farmers and ranchers, UPA), in 2017, droughts caused losses of more than 3,600 million euros in the agricultural sector in Spain, mostly due a big loss of productivity in crops.

Women received tenure less often than men with equal productivity in three disciplines studied by Kate Weisshaar, a Ph.D. student in sociology at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California.

Hardly, Chetelat says, because the heirlooms» taste may have less to do with its genes than with the productivity of the plant and the growing environment.

How much money do you lose, living with half the productivity level you could, reaching less than half of your potential?

You may think you're effectively chipping away at sleep debt with those little bits and pieces of «sleep,» but you're really just fragmenting your sleep (PDF), which leads to «sleepiness - related daytime impairment,» compulsory afternoon caffeine infusions, and less productivity.

Illnesses associated with nutrient deficiencies have significantly reduced the productivity of women in less developed countries.

It is difficult to determine exactly what proportion of those losses are due to maternal malnutrition, but recent research indicates that 60 percent of deaths of children under age 5 are associated with malnutrition — and children's malnutrition is strongly correlated with mothers» poor nutritional status.17 Problems related to anemia, for example, including cognitive impairment in children and low productivity in adults, cost US$ 5 billion a year in South Asia alone.18 Illness associated with nutrient deficiencies have significantly reduced the productivity of women in less developed countries.19 A recent report from Asia shows that malnutrition reduces human productivity by 10 percent to 15 percent and gross domestic product by 5 percent to 10 percent.20 By improving the nutrition of adolescent girls and women, nations can reduce health care costs, increase intellectual capacity, and improve adult productivity.21

Gamification is the ideal tool that uses game theory to maximize business outcomes with less expenses than incentives yet more effective at increasing productivity.

In November 2010, U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan presciently observed that, in coming years, educators would «face the challenge of doing more with less,» but warned against discouragement: «Enormous opportunities for improving the productivity of our education system lie ahead if we are smart, innovative, and courageous in rethinking the status quo.»

The week before Thanksgiving, Secretary Duncan sang the praises of productivity in a speech at the American Enterprise Institute titled «The New Normal: Doing More With Less.»

Later, when factory managers first replaced their large steam engines with large electric motors, the new electric motors were less noisy and didn't produce smoke, but they had little impact on productivity.

One way forward for simplification and increases in the productivity of the federal investment is to make social programs intended to support lower income families with children more like tax expenditures — putting more money directly in the hands of parents to spend on the care and development of their children and less money directly in the financial accounts of states, welfare agencies, and social service providers.

Most companies use productivity measures to inform the subjective assessments of supervisors, with some companies permitting less subjective judgment than others for fear of bias or favoritism.

School districts are going to need to get more productivity with less funding for a very long time.

Without the ability to use a «proper» pen, the Iconia W500 becomes just another tablet, with less battery life and all the issues of Windows including susceptibility to hacking and virus attacks and lacking the advantages of cheap, productivity enhancing apps.

Without the ability to use a «proper» pen, the Iconia W500 becomes just another tablet, with less battery life and all the issues of Windows including susceptibility to hacking and virus attacks and lacking the advantages of cheap, productivity enhancing apps.

It's made some significant (or, less generously, insanely tardy) additions to Fire OS (we're officially calling it that now), if not quite enough to really punch weight with iOS and Android and even Windows Phone for pure productivity.

by Shelley Hitz I love productivity tools and finding ways to accomplish more with less time.

And while I don't deny that 16:9 displays are awesome for consuming movies and media content (it's also nice for games where you steer with the device), I can't help but feel they're less friendly for things like web browsing or using productivity apps like Word or Excel.

The partnership with Lyft will help ensure that set - up and billing for covered transports for insured and corporate travelers can be managed more efficiently and effectively with less travel interruption and higher productivity for travelers — by booking ground transports through Generali Global Assistance team members with direct access to Lyft's «Concierge Platform.»

The three works selected for Soundtracks are Sphere Packing: Mozart (2014; white polymer, 565 audio channels), Sphere Packing: Wagner (2013; glazed porcelain, 110 audio channels), and Sphere Packing: Cage (2014; plastic, 269 audio channels)-- an abridged walk through the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries.2 The series as a whole, featuring seventeen composers, constitutes nothing less than a broad history of classical music, with surprising insights in terms of productivity, ranging from seventeen compositions (by Claudio Monteverdi) to 1,128 (by Johann Sebastian Bach).

Fertilizing the surface ocean with iron increases biological productivity, but the resulting carbon dioxide removal will be much less than expected due to the increased productivity of diatoms, which incorporate and remove the bioavailable iron.

A healthy economy increases productivity and produces more goods and services with less, not more, labor.

Although the United States will be less affected and is better equipped than most nations to deal with climate change, and may even see a benefit owing to increases in agriculture productivity, infrastructure repair and replacement will be costly.

Even with all our NPK etc inputs the primary productivity of a crop field is typically less that 20 % that of a natural biome.

The 1950 - 2015 drop from over 6 to less than 3 was made up with productivity.

(4) Last Interglacial (MIS 5e / Eemian) with a more or less closed sea ice cover situation over Core PS2757 - 8, preventing phytoplankton and sea ice algae productivity, and probably ice - free conditions towards the East Siberian shelf.

Robert routinely advises clients on tax issues in connection with business planning and has represented clients before the IRS and the United States Tax Court; always aiming to resolve tax controversies through negotiation, which is typically less expensive and faster than a trial, thus minimizing the cost of tax disputes and their impact on business operations and productivity.

«Given the significance of email and the productivity (and other) issues with surfing the internet, it doesn't seem likely either of these is going to become less frequently monitored.