At the enterprise level, the private sector is deploying technology to boost productivity and efficiency.
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Studies from other countries have found that paid family and medical leave programs boost productivity.
His second goal was to boost productivity to the levels of Britain's main competitors, enabling greater prosperity.
Blue walls have been found to boost productivity and creativity, while green is considered more tranquil.
Of course, many businesses already have their staff and are simply looking to improve or boost productivity.
This means there is huge scope to boost productivity by giving workers new machines and better infrastructure.
But the privately-held company's quest to curb costs and boost productivity has it mothballing some of this real-world production.
"Open markets help to boost productivity and drive America's economic growth, " he said.
The strong currency may boost productivity by making imported machinery and software cheaper.
As the successful entrants tend to be more efficient than the firms that die, they boost productivity across the economy.
The country's powerful trade unions are fighting wage cuts, so firms are trying to boost productivity or expand production abroad.
Late last month, Home Depot said it would cut 1, 000 jobs across its U.S. operations in an effort to boost productivity.
Brainstorming seems like an ideal technique, a feel-good way to boost productivity.
Few G-20 countries have used the time bought by past stimulus to make the vital supply-side reforms to boost productivity and competitiveness.
Globalisation continues to combine with whizzy new information technologies to boost productivity.
Networked machines able to exchange data and take action without humans can boost productivity and customer satisfaction faster than any outsourced call center.
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Mr Porter may be right to think that the region should concentrate on microeconomic reforms that boost productivity, which can raise living standards.
Today's puzzle: How and why employers managed to boost productivity, or output per hour of work, like never before during the worst recession in decades?
As well as lowering the cost of inputs for domestic firms, trade increases the variety of products and may also boost productivity both tricky to quantify.
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In an effort to cut down on travel and boost productivity, Mr Katzenberg looked into videoconferencing in 2001 and found it clunky, unreliable and fiddly.
Mobile devices broaden system access, accelerate decision making and boost productivity.
Concentrating on a single vessel type helped to boost productivity, as the yard refined its production methods and rejigged workers' pay to reflect qualifications and experience.
When the currency was created, the hope was that the loss of the safety valve of devaluation would help to boost productivity and make markets more flexible.
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The industrial giant says it uses the system to boost productivity in low-volume factories with a relatively small number of employees, each of whom can do several tasks.
Moreover, Canadian private investment is divided evenly between machinery and equipment, which boost productivity sharply, and structures that store and transport goods, which have less of an impact.
Clusters are good in any field because they boost productivity and innovation, and cluster policy seeks to reduce constraints and encourage externalities to raise the productivity of competition.
In 2009, Mr. Formanowicz closed one his five Polish plants, laying off most of the work force, and invested in better machinery to boost productivity at the four remaining.
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In one of several measures designed to boost productivity in a sagging economy, Spain's unions and business associations have agreed to suppress three bridges by moving the holidays to Mondays.
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This implies, however, that to remain competitive without recourse to devaluation, Italy must introduce structural reforms to boost productivity and hold down costs, as well as sorting out its public finances.
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