Business leaders are looking at empty desk space in centralised offices and understanding the wasted expense.
Maybe they'll be a wasted expense, or maybe they'll prevent financial ruin in the event of a catastrophe.
Surprised by a falloff in book sales that began during the important holiday season, publishers now face sales disappointments worsened by the wasted expense of printing, shipping and, eventually, pulping unsold books.
For all the unwelcome intrusion into her private life, for all the angry public debate, for all the wasted expense and the time spent just waiting: nothing, for Abyan, has changed.
Should I bill Forbes for the wasted expense?
The wasted expense of product completion incorporating a tainted material would be avoided as well as the potentially higher costs associated with product liability issues.
I also do most of my marketing through online networks, my e-newsletter and my blog so I can avoid the paper-waste, expense and often mediocre return associated with direct mail pieces.
These days some of them send you through a physical to make sure you can hack it there's a huge wasted expense if the company has to ship you back to Calgary from god knows where after a few days in the field.
A couple of bucks a month may not sound like much, but when you have hundreds of people leaving a company in any given year, multiplied by potentially dozens of subscriptions per employee, the amount of wasted expenses can be quite high.
More sampling, less waste, less expense.
And when the Texan father of one of the grooms wonders if the multiple services are a show of ego and a waste of expense, I wondered as well.
