"Worker productivity" refers to how efficiently and effectively someone performs their job or work tasks. It measures the amount of output or work accomplished in relation to the input or effort put in.
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Applications and a connected workforce
increase worker productivity by making their business operations available at their fingertips, wherever they might be.
Rising wages, unless offset by gains
in worker productivity, could negatively impact corporate earnings down the road.
A: A Performance Support tool refers to any tool / system that improves
worker productivity by providing on - the - job access to integrated information, advice and learning experiences.
Between 2000 and 2006, average wages remained flat despite an increase
of worker productivity of 15 %, while corporate profits increased 13 % per year.
Employers, acknowledging the potential for
lost worker productivity and disruption of customer service, are taking steps to minimize the effects of the repairs.
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.
A reduction in social capital has been linked to
decreased worker productivity, rising rates of depression, higher rates of crime, juvenile delinquency, teenage pregnancy, and child abuse.
We invest in emerging - growth companies that develop technologies to address resource sustainability for industrial customers and to improve efficiency and
worker productivity for enterprise customers.
Some develop measures to assess student performance or teacher effectiveness, just as in business they might
measure worker productivity.
Some critics have voiced concerns that the new law could
reduce worker productivity, causing French companies to fall behind their global competitors.
Since 1979, pay for the median worker has risen only 9 percent even
as worker productivity has grown 64 percent.
Improving public sector workforce quality is challenging in sectors such as education
where worker productivity is difficult to assess and manager incentives are muted by political and bureaucratic constraints.
For example, they might
assess worker productivity and recommend changes to the organization's structure to help the organization meet budgetary goals.
My background includes developing and implementing strategic plans, growth - focused programs, and optimal quality initiatives to
maximize worker productivity and efficiency in high - volume manufacturing environments.
They indicate that higher ozone concentrations, even at levels below current air quality standards in most of the world, have significant negative effects
on worker productivity.
The city has been ranked by various national media as one of the best places to live with excellent quality of life and
high worker productivity.
Liability,
decreased worker productivity, risks regarding confidentiality, proprietary information, business reputation and security, lots more — for starters.
A 1997 study showed that Fidelity had increased efficiency in its back - end processes
with worker productivity rising 41 %, DeMaddalena says.
Not paying a living wage
lowers worker productivity and creates stress on employees who should be viewed «as human beings, not just workers,» and the practice, she says, «doesn't serve the company or its brand.»
U.S. worker productivity increased modestly in Q1, and a jump in compensation supported views that inflation pressures were building up.
Among the core findings are that by 2010, while there will continue to be strategic real estate functions to perform, they will be performed in the context of
enhancing worker productivity and company competitiveness through a fully integrated infrastructure that will include human resources, information technology, real estate and other support functions.
It's a serious matter, according to researchers who have been
studying worker productivity, and the unceasing interruptions are having a profound impact on our ability to concentrate on the tasks at hand.
A study by the Draugiem Group, a social networking company, used time - tracking software to
monitor worker productivity in real time and found that the most efficient employees didn't actually work longer hours.
«Research continues to refine the precise role of light spectrum, intensity, and timing on the scope of patient outcomes, and on health -
care worker productivity.
If
American worker productivity drops in the third quarter of 2012, I'm fairly certain the cause will be traced back to this: iPet Companion, a «virtual play room» that allows anyone, anywhere, to play with criminally cute, reprehensibly distracting orphan cats waiting to be adopted in city shelters.
Using data on the productivity of agricultural workers, along with information about environmental conditions that come from the California air monitoring network, they analyze the relationship between ozone concentrations during the typical workday and
farm worker productivity.
«When air quality improves, health costs from air pollution - related diseases shrink,
worker productivity expands and life expectancy grows.
Companies that have invested in new natural lighting retrofits to existing facilities have
seen worker productivity jump between 13 to 16 percent, according to «Greening The Building And The Bottom Line» (PDF), a report it produced with the Rocky Mountain Institute.
Worker Productivity to Drop This, coupled with rising temperatures, is likely to
sap worker productivity, with quantifiable economic decreases occurring — places like Delhi could see 30 % drops in productivity.
As mentioned in one of our previous blog posts, «A «Performance Support System» or PSS refers to any system that
improves worker productivity by providing on - the - job access to integrated information, advice and learning experiences.»