The study tested how volunteers, in the role of employers, rated the ability of "employees" to complete computer mazes.
The documents reveal several aspects of working life as susceptible to radical change, including employees' annual leave, occasional days' leave, sick pay, hours of work, the ability of employees to move from one job to another and probationary periods.
Ann Brackbill, an AOL Time Warner spokeswoman, said other things on the plus side included the ability of employees to gain access to AOL's e-mail system from "just about anywhere" and its integration with AOL's instant messenger system.
Heldt has become so good at questioning the motivation or ability of employees that he himself has hired that no one has ever seriously questioned his own role in the stasis.
A second employment case, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center versus Naiel Nassar, decided by the same 5 to 4 majority also thwarts the ability of employees to sue for discrimination under Title VII.
The memorandum said that monitoring designed to target (i.e. ferret out) such submissions would be "highly problematic" because it undermines the ability of employees to make confidential disclosures.
An Army of Ph.D.'s" (Digital Domain, June 6), which discussed how Google recruits people with doctorates and, once they are hired, encourages them to work on problems of their own choosing: For true innovation, the ability of employees to select and direct their own activities is far more important than the degrees they hold.
By compromising the ability of employees to focus on individual tasks in the name of collaboration, the study concluded, the open office plan fails.
What I tried to do is restore what we had before an ability of employees to work together and solve problems".
Enron, like many other public companies, matched pretax 401(k) contributions with its own stock and limited the ability of employees to sell that stock.
