Sentences with phrase «worker productivity for»

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.

Not exact matches

Participating factories had registered positive outcomes for workers, who enjoyed improved quality of life, and their businesses — which tallied declines in absenteeism and increased productivity.

«The first thing to keep in mind is that, in some long run equilibrium, wage inflation should be equal to what the growth rate of productivity is — so how much workers can produce — and the increase in prices for the goods they produce,» he said at the UBS Greater China conference in Shanghai.

According to the OECD, about 13 % of workers are under - qualified for their jobs, significantly affecting productivity at your firm.

Here are a few considerations that I hope will help each of us to design and deliver a workplace that fits the way employees operate in the 21st century, and which will allow us to attract, connect, engage, and delight Millennial workers and optimize our company cultures for productivity, engagement, and results:

The Center for the Promotion of Health in the New England Workplace says that one - third of workers report high levels of stress resulting in higher healthcare costs, periods of employee disability, absenteeism, higher turnover, and lower productivity on the job.

Rewarding workers for their productivity — even those who are not necessarily the usual stand - outs — helps cultivate a sense that improvement and hard work is worthwhile, Riddle says.

In top - down power structures, employees are viewed as worker bees and considered to be objects or expenses rather than assets; there is little concern for their happiness or well - being, since the motive for hiring them was purely productivity and profit.

Wages tend to grow along with the economy, but a number of factors, most notably technological change and globalization, have ensured that for most classes of workers wages have grown slower than productivity gains.

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.

Not only do employers have to invest time and money in hiring and onboarding replacement workers, but it takes time for new hires to reach the level of performance and productivity that their predecessors maintained.

«Take, for instance, the undervaluation of female - dominated jobs like school teachers, who affect the long - term productivity of children as they grow up and become workers themselves,» Bahn tells Fortune.

Hawskworth warned limiting the migration of skilled workers from the EEA to the UK could have «particularly negative implications for longer term productivity and the UK's international competitiveness.»

More businesses see smart watches, glasses and other digital gadgets as essential elements of long - range plans for improving worker wellness and productivity.

For Cerner, the added convenience translates into about $ 1.2 million in productivity savings among its 5,700 Kansas City workers.

While Ctrip originally thought the money it would save in space and furniture — about $ 1,900 per employee for the length of the study — would offset a drop in productivity, at - home worker output wasn't hampered a bit, Bloom reported in a story for Harvard Business Review.

Even so, the researchers aren't making broad pronouncements that remote work always trumps office work in terms of productivity, but rather suggest certain kinds of workers might be better suited for it, such as solitary, hourly folks whose output can be measured — call - center reps, proofreaders, developers, and the like.

For employers, absent a marked increase in per - worker productivity, they find themselves with lowered output and the need to add additional staff, which, because of the restrictions of Obamacare, will undoubtedly have to be more part - timers.

«Company leaders are searching for tools that generate more worker engagement, and thus productivity and profits,» he says.

But here's the thing: if Facebook is going to claim credit for so many sweeping accomplishments, shouldn't it also take some of the blame for the billions of dollars in lost productivity from office workers surfing Facebook all day?

Wage and benefit increases of 15 to 20 percent per year at the average Chinese factory will slash China's labor - cost advantage over low - cost states in the U.S., from 55 percent today to 39 percent in 2015, when adjusted for the higher productivity of U.S. workers.

For example, if you sell time management software as a service, your traditional content strategy might focus on productivity tips and helping workers improve their efficiency, but your help content might help users understand how to better use your platform.

«The average white collar worker is spending 1.5 hours per week looking for data they can't find,» says Bary C. Sherman, CEO of the productivity solutions firm PEPworldwide — USA.

Some economists argue that even if there are short - term benefits to American producers and workers, over the longer - term trade intervention is harmful for U.S. productivity growth.

Meanwhile, on the productivity front, U.S. parent companies with foreign affiliates currently employ more than one foreign worker for every two U.S. workers.

Since 1979, pay for the median worker has risen only 9 percent even as worker productivity has grown 64 percent.

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

While it is sensible economics to interpret the positive link of employee stock ownership and profit sharing to company performance as reflecting worker responses to the incentives in the plans, it is possible that the positive relation comes from a very different causal link, in which higher - productivity companies introduce profit sharing or employee stock ownership plans for whatever reason.

But industry experts say the PC is increasingly serving as a productivity tool for workers, while the advent of tablets and smartphones has made it just one of many useful gadgets that consumers can choose from.

For example, faster labour force growth will encourage firms to invest not only to meet greater demand but also to equip these additional workers with machines and other capital to raise their productivity.5 The rate of technological progress is also a key factor, since a faster pace of innovation raises the return on each additional unit of capital, stimulating firms to invest more.

For employers, NowRx can improve worker productivity by eliminating time employees spend having prescriptions filled off - campus.

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.

A huge amount of productivity is lost every year by companies whose workers are putting a percentage of their creative minds into flirting rather than into achieving anything of value for their employers.

So it's not enough that we treat our farmers like dirt, we must create near slave - like conditions for agricultural workers in order to reach those holy grails of «increased productivity» and «greater global competitiveness».

The need for «store - friendly and aisle - ready» deliveries, reverse route sequence truck loading, worker ergonomics / safety, additional space, and the growing number of stock keeping units is creating demand for increased productivity, and efficiency in food and beverage distribution centres.

Big Ass Fans and Lights are an economical, energy - efficient solution for a herd of agricultural issues — from worker safety and product integrity to animal health, productivity, air quality, bird and bug deterrence and more.

It's been shown in multiple studies that workers who are content in their jobs have a higher rate of productivity, a lower rate of absenteeism or accidents, and are likely to experience greater job satisfaction and feel loyalty toward the company instead of just showing up for a paycheck.

But County Legislator and Minority Leader Kevin McCaffrey told The Suffolk Times that moving more meetings east would decrease productivity for county workers called in to advise legislators at the committee meetings.

Over 200 workers of the YEA have been affected in the latest transfer which was intended to reposition the Agency for higher productivity, according to management.

«The falls in nominal wages that workers have experienced during this recession are unprecedented, and seem to provide at least a partial explanation for why unemployment has risen less — and productivity has fallen more — than might otherwise have been expected,» Claire Crawford, programme director at IFS, said.

«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.»

Employers, acknowledging the potential for lost worker productivity and disruption of customer service, are taking steps to minimize the effects of the repairs.

«The minimum wage needs to be raised right now for low - wage workers because the rent won't wait,» said Hawkins who has called for $ 15 and indexed to productivity.

«As two organizations committed to the health and safety of workers, it makes sense for us to address the potential consequences of workforce marijuana use on employers, ranging from the risk and associated cost of adverse events to the possible loss of productivity,» said AAOHN President Jeannie Tomlinson.

Lead author Professor Marian Rizov from Lincoln International Business School at the University of Lincoln, said: «Our findings offer compelling evidence that increasing wages for the lowest paid workers improves productivity, and that this effect applies in companies of all sizes and across most low - paying sectors.

«In particular, in a world with constraints on the funding and dissemination of ideas (e.g., a limit on the number of faculty slots, or, more abstractly, a limit on the attention span of the potential audience), large and sudden increases in the population of producers of knowledge can result in diminishing marginal productivity for a pre-existing worker,» it continues.

He added: «A similar model could be used to answer a variety of questions in society - for example, how much do individuals, teams and companies affect worker productivity or how much classes, schools and neighbourhoods affect educational attainment.»

Under intense pressure and faced with the difficult challenge of meeting core goals, many workers aspire instead to proxy goals used to evaluate productivity: Scientists, for example, may pursue publications instead of real, important insights.

Under intense pressure and faced with the difficult challenge of meeting core goals, many workers aspire instead to meet the proxy goals used to evaluate productivity: Scientists, for example, may pursue publications instead of real, important insights.

After linking the medical data with individual worker productivity data, the authors found that participation in the wellness program increased average worker productivity by over 5 percent — roughly equivalent to adding one additional day of productive work per month for the average employee.