Job: chief executive, BBC Worldwide Age: 51 Industry: broadcasting, publishing, digital media Salary: £486,000 (including £106,000 bonus and benefits) Turnover: £916m 2008 ranking: 49 John Smith has overseen a rapid expansion of the BBC's commercial arm, BBC Worldwide, as he tries to hit a £200m profit target by 2012.
There are also economic benefits — lower turnover, higher productivity and morale, and reduced job loss for workers.
In the meantime, the travel division – shops in airports and on stations – has enjoyed the benefit of turnover-based rents and captive customers willing to fork out for bottled water, where profit margins are presumably immense.
A recent study requested by Congress pointed out expected benefits from turnover at the agency.
The longevity of the workforce tells you that good wages and benefits kept turnover at the plant low — when companies cared about keeping turnover low.
Commerce is suffering as companies incur losses in the form of higher disability pensions, funeral benefits, and turnover and training costs"[ 21].
The Saints keep benefiting from turnovers -- five in two games -- and they keep getting credit for "forcing" them even when passes bounce off receivers' hands and snaps fly over the opposing quarterbacks' heads.
Giving up the ball to the other side through a fumble or an interception has to be avoided at all costs, and the Saints have the second-best record in the NFL for benefiting from turnovers.
While maintaining staff loyalty is one reason Ms. Tanaka will not cut personnel, she also enjoys a practical benefit: Her employee turnover rate is 11percentt, compared with more than 30percentt in her field.
