HE has found that by relying on free agent contract workers, a company implicitly accepts high turnover, enormous training costs, productivity losses, loss of knowledge, and possibly a gift of knowledge to competitors -- who knows where someone might work next?
As historical construction data are expensive and time-consuming to collect, any waste of incomplete data means not only loss of knowledge but also increase of costs for knowledge discovery of construction engineering.
These imitative intentions were disastrous and led to the loss of knowledge of how to blend colours and handle materials.
At Faber, Eliot was publishing a number of books on agricultural matters he hoped would be a bulwark against this loss of knowledge and community.
But quantification's lack of intimacy is also its weakness; it represents not only a gain but also a loss of knowledge.
In Japan (see article), that workforce will shrink by a fifth in the next decade a considerable loss of knowledge and skills.
Accordingly he emphasises that "relationships and culture trump structures", and laments the recent loss of knowledge and experience in the health and care system – "a form of organisational dementia" as he puts it.
If the workforce implosion includes the departure of senior managers, there is a loss of knowledge of history and previous learning and an inevitable hiatus in building a new organisational culture.
Sebastian Faulks observed recently that ease of access to the internet is leading to a "net loss of knowledge" in this generation of adults, leaving the modern intellectual world in a "kind of catastrophe".
The second world war inflicted not only physical damage on the City of London but also imposed a significant human cost on the financial sector in terms of international connections and loss of knowledge.
