Sentences with phrase «with more labor»

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The tighter the labor market, the more companies have to entice candidates away from competitors with better wages, among other things.

Since Buzz is currently limited to Gmail, it will be more labor intensive to tie in the new feature with your existing small business software, and there is no defined public Web space for Buzz, which means that users define public or private posts.

However, even among full - time workers (those usually working 35 hours or more per week), men worked longer than women — 8.4 hours, compared with 7.8 hours, respectively, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Workers who drink with their colleagues earn up to 14 % more than people who skip the bar, according to research published in the Journal of Labor Research.

While the labor market has returned to more normal levels, with the unemployment rate at around 5.1 percent, overall hiring has remained weak, per the most recent Department of Labor jobs replabor market has returned to more normal levels, with the unemployment rate at around 5.1 percent, overall hiring has remained weak, per the most recent Department of Labor jobs repLabor jobs reports.

«Girls with more schooling participate in greater numbers in the labor force when they grow up, and they are able to earn more for their families and society,» the Center for Global Development reports.

Second, the United States needs to build a more responsive labor market with more career paths outside the traditional degree track.

While organized labor contends that a union workforce is a quality workforce, that argument, more often than not, doesn't resonate with business.

In the past decade, nearly 54,000 factories have been shuttered or moved offshore, including 40 percent of facilities with payrolls of more than 1,000, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Gas prices at the pump skyrocket, with the national average rising 7 cents per gallon, and more gains expected over the Labor Day weekend.

Faced with labor shortages, the U.S. food system would experience supply constraints that could result in higher prices and force the country to look beyond its own borders for more of its food supply.

The labor market is becoming increasingly competitive, with companies putting more time and effort into creating a top - notch employer brand.

Meanwhile, immigration restrictions make it more difficult to import the cheap labor that would be competitive with overseas operations; for an example, see the debacle now taking place in Alabama after the enactment of a draconian immigration law.

In Oakland at a later march, more than 1,000 people marched peacefully representing labor groups along with Mexican, Vietnamese, Chinese, Filipino and other immigrants.

While organized labor contends that a union workforce is a quality workforce, that argument, more often than not, does not resonate with business.

And it must act consistently and holistically with its support and the elimination of economically hostile policies and laws, such as restrictive labor laws, ever - changing tax policies and an almost exclusive emphasis on funding the government for one more month instead of growing the economy.

With the economy already at full employment and more and more signs of higher wage and unit labor cost inflation, the risks are rising that it will be PCE moving up to CPI.

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, more than 70 percent of mothers with children under 18 are in the workforce.

The value of that box was more than $ 100, and given the low margins on food products, the labor involved with individually wrapping ingredients and the costly Styrofoam packaging with cool packs, this clearly was not a cheap giveaway.

With demand for coding skills stronger than ever, today there are more than 500,000 unfilled programming - related positions across the country, and the US Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts that by 2020 there will be 1.4 million more software development jobs than applicants qualified to fill them.

And with labor costs rising, homebuilders are building more expensive homes to maintain their margins, which means they are abandoning the starter home market.

This gap is slowly closing, as data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show that women with children now make slightly more than women without kids under 18 at home, which wasn't the case a year ago.

With the family's blessings, she sought to raise profit margins by shifting from labor - intensive products like framing lumber to more lucrative specialties, including kitchen and bath fixtures.

«We will know the labor market is getting tight when we do see a more meaningful upward move in wages,» Powell said in response to a reporter's question as to whether he was satisfied with the pace of wage growth, which remains lackluster by most accounts.

If you compare the price of $ 405 with the cost of labor ($ 210) already estimated, you'll notice that one figure is more than double the other.

Finally, a growing number of union leaders are abandoning the futile efforts to achieve incremental reforms of the current ossified and defunct labor law and instead are calling for opening up labor law to encourage and protect workers who experiment with these and other more fluid and varied activities free from reprisals.

What's more, a number of unions on college campuses are allying with non-governmental organizations, such as United Students against Sweatshops to hold corporations accountable for enforcing labor standards throughout their global supply chains.

Wells Fargo is under investigation by the Labor Department, which wants to see whether the bank has been pushing people with cheaper corporate 401 (k) plans to transfer their holdings to Wells's more expensive individual retirement plans.

But there are plenty of growth industries with low - capital intensity — in other words, they rely more on labor than equipment.

The stark responsiveness to the business cycle suggests that many college students, and especially female college students, have sufficient ability to complete more challenging majors, such as STEM fields, yet choose not to do so in periods with stronger labor market prospects.»

Jed Kolko, chief economist with employment website Indeed.com, was more optimistic that wage growth is picking up nationally, noting that the tighter labor market was putting pressure on employers to pay more.

Removing barriers to internal labor mobility and trade are important elements of this strategy — both to bring people with important skills to the areas where the jobs are, and to bring more jobs to people that are not living in the resource - rich areas.

Job growth ground nearly to a halt in May, with the U.S. labor market having its worst performance in more than five years, the Labor Department said Frlabor market having its worst performance in more than five years, the Labor Department said FrLabor Department said Friday.

It usually requires an explanation on the order of infinite retention («yes, our sales and marketing costs are really high and our annual profit margins per user are thin, but we're going to keep the customer forever»), a massive reduction in costs («we're going to replace all our human labor with robots»), a claim that eventually the company can stop buying users («we acquire users for more than they're worth for now just to get the flywheel spinning»), or something even less plausible.

Nearly 40 % of top performing firms already have more than 30 % of their labor force composed of contract / freelance workers with next year increases expected to be 30 — 60 — 90 % or more.»

-- Harvard Business School — «The average time it took an unemployed person to find a job — full time, part time or otherwise — in December (2008) was 19.7 weeks» — Department of Labor — «Elite professionals feel least adept at getting meaningful introductions to key contacts (and) more adept at maintaining ongoing contact with key network members.»

Other benefits are more socioeconomic, such as parking assistance, a reduction in labor costs, fuel conservation, and the ability to move the elderly and people with disabilities around.

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.

With more than 100 lawyers, the office has well - established practices in corporate law, financial services, labor and employment, litigation, real estate and taxation and wealth planning.

«The good news is that we are exporting more, but with the labor markets incredibly tight, labor costs are accelerating as well,» said Joel Naroff, chief economist at Naroff Economic Advisors in Holland, Pennsylvania.

Those of us who graduated from HBS decades ago and have been laboring in the trenches within specific industries can easily lose touch with major external changes that are more obvious to our younger colleagues.

Cetera Financial Group says it has hired more executives and updated its platforms in order to helps its advisors sell and service retirement plans in accordance with the expected new Department of Labor fiduciary standard.

Businesses benefit by lowering recruitment costs, improving attrition rates, optimizing labor in relation to demand signals, and improving the customer experience with happier, more engaged employees.

Places with cheap labor can not industrialize on their own, and they can always throw warm bodies at the problem as it usually cheaper to hire more workers than rethink processes, design machinery and roll out new systems.

The Labor Department is examining whether Wells Fargo & Co pushed participants in low - cost corporate 401 (k) plans to roll their holdings into more expensive individual retirement accounts at the bank, according to a person familiar with the inquiry the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.

Although TPP is often seen as another in a line of treaties aimed at liberalizing trade further, a more important goal may have been to «raise the bar» on trade, and to set up a body of rules, including on environmental and labor issues, with which to create pressure for countries like China to comply.

April 26 The Labor Department is examining whether Wells Fargo & Co pushed participants in low - cost corporate 401 (k) plans to roll their holdings into more expensive individual retirement accounts at the bank, according to a person familiar with the inquiry the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.

A lower tax on land rents leaves more to be capitalized into bank loans, and hence inflates the price of housing — while government revenue is balanced by burdening labor and industry with income and sales taxes.

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.

This is not certainty, but the evidence that we've observed in the equity market, labor market, and credit markets to - date is simply much more consistent with the recent advance being a component of a more drawn - out and painful deleveraging cycle.