King says in her email: "Our district manager is not pleased … because senior managers are under pressure to improve our office output and move up the league he has to apply some pressure downwards".
However, many managers in positions of authority will try to control schedules (e.g., time in the office), output (e.g., number of sales calls), and budget (e.g., line item for travel) before they have earned the trust of their employees.
There is no cruelty, or tub-thumping satire, or any of the "tragedy of the everyday" social commentary arsery that's stunk out Ricky Gervais's post-Office output.
Fig. 9 First four scenes (Chess, Fire, Heads, Office) registration output example.
His office is small, his output mostly concentrated in his native Portugal.
Eurostat, the European Union's statistics office, said euro-zone output rose by only 0.3 percent during the quarter.
Classical was irrelevant, he said: "The Roman carvers saw the acanthus as a beautiful thing growing in the fields; but what draftsman has ever seen an acanthus growing along the Bronx River?" Perhaps that explains why Churchill's office had a skimpy output; the handful includes the modernist Hotel Lowell, at 28 East 63rd Street, with its luscious pink terra-cotta decoration.
Later this year, Intel will introduce its Light Peak fiber optic link, in a bid to replace U.S.B. and other electrical cables that now connect computers with digital cameras, music players, smartphones and dozens of other devices, said Jason Ziller, Intel's director for the optical input-output program office.
Instead, the unspoken corporate rules judge commitment and performance by the number of hours spent in the office, rather than quality of output.
(Until Pixar and Disney joined forces, DreamWorks animation studios, which made the Shrek and Madagascar films, were Disney's more successful rivals, with neither studio remotely approaching the box office sheen of Pixar's output).
According to a Tuesday report in Bloomberg/Businessweek, one global market research firm estimates that the government shutdown "cost $1.6 billion last week in lost economic output" and "the office closures are now draining an average of $160 million each workday from the $15.7 trillion economy".
