Sentence examples for waste of skills from inspiring English sources

Over-skilling is associated with a substantial waste of skills, as workers who are over skilled in literacy appear to use their skills at work substantially less than similarly proficient workers who are well-matched, namely 5.3% lower usage of literacy and 1% lower usage of numeracy.

And it doesn't just cost her; it's a cost to women's families, to businesses and to Britain as a whole for the waste of skills and talent it signifies.

But that would be a waste of his other skills".

What a waste of the precious skills and talents of our young people.

In purely economic terms this is a ridiculous waste of money and skills.

Those figures were described at the time by John Philpott of the Jobs Economist consultancy as revealing an "alarming jump in under-employment and a massive waste of investment in skills".

"The pre-recession rates of underemployment of graduate skills in the UK economy were already disappointing – the post-recession rates represent an alarming jump in underemployment and a massive waste of investment in skills," said John Philpott, director of The Jobs Economist consultancy.

This week Alexander watched Heston Blumenthal's Victorian Feast on TV and marvelled at his madness: "His efforts to make edible dishes out of insects and cow's eyes may be fascinating to watch, but they are an amazing waste of ingenuity and skill.

Other forms of indirect waste include the inappropriate use of skills, and "ghosts" that plague payrolls while restricting room for new employment.

The French intellectual Roger Caillois, in a 1958 response to Huizinga entitled "Man, Play and Games," called play "an occasion of pure waste: waste of time, energy, ingenuity, skill, and often of money".

"It is a fun, social way to combat the general frustration with wasted materials, resources and a loss of skills," says Jackson-White. "More than that it's a community, a space for empowerment and the site of transformation where people's relationships with their things shift from consumer to owner".