Congress reasoned that reductions in research spending had led to less innovation which in turn led to inferior products, adverse effects on productivity, the outsourcing of American jobs and declining economic growth.
A 2010 IBM Smart Cities paper found that US office workers in 16 cities over one year spent a net 33 years waiting for lifts, with clear effects on productivity.
After accounting for the effects on productivity, disc herniation surgery was found to be a highly cost-effective surgery and may yield net societal savings if the benefits of outpatient and inpatient surgery persist beyond 6 and 12 years, respectively.
"We find that human happiness has large and positive causal effects on productivity," the team said.
It misses out trade's effects on productivity and the benefits of freer trade in services.
Commissioners should recognise the value of co-ownership and staff engagement and effects on productivity and motivation.
However, adding alfalfa to the diet had only minor effects on productivity.
Researchers warn that management strategies designed to eliminate sarcasm from workplaces may have detrimental effects on productivity and profits.
So the kind of ratcheting up of both the volume and the velocity is having some very negative effects on productivity, again.
Zhang, P., Deschenes, O., Meng, K. & Zhang, J. Temperature effects on productivity and factor reallocation: evidence from a half million Chinese manufacturing plants.
There were strong workpiece orientations by work height interactive effects on productivity and measures of wrist deviation.
