Businesses can fire or hire workers largely at will and there are no significant costs to massively trimming the payroll (as we are now seeing with German owned Chrysler). The only important restraints on this managerial freedom are concerns about worker morale and its impact on productivity, profits and stock valuation.

The only important restraints on this managerial freedom are concerns about worker morale and its impact on productivity, profits and stock valuation.

And here's productivity.

The performance of electric cars has improved.

This will improve the performance.

This will improve the performance.

Let's split the profits.

It has a peak interprocessor bandwidth of 96 GB s and a peak memory bandwidth of 34 GB s.

NetWare NFS outperformed both 'native' NFS systems and claimed a 2 1 performance advantage over SCO Unix NFS on the same hardware.

We try to cash in on it.

They netted a good profit.

The company overstated its profits.

We shared the profit equally.

It will undermine labor s skills and productivity.

Another major revolution the communications revolution.

Indeed, its performance continues to astound me.

The output of this factory has increased by 20 .

But free trade also promises few benefits now and huge benefits in the future.

On the contrary, they typically get significantly lower returns than Americans get on their investments abroad.

In 2002, productivity grew by 4.8 an extraordinary result, because productivity normally falls during economic slowdowns.

When it comes to productivity, India has been a laggard.

When a new rice variety was introduced, productivity soared.

Most of these expenditures are also profitable.

Shifts to more energy efficient means of transportation ease congestion.

Couldn t earnings collapse?

On the contrary, it implies excess benefits .

Where profit meets pain

An investment has returns.

What are the returns on this ?

This results in a dual level of tax.

But it will do so only if serious institutional deficiencies are eliminated.

Manufacturing productivity increased somewhat, owing to intense international competition.

It will lower transaction costs and increase labor productivity.

Recently, profits have not cooperated.

The gains do not accrue to the most deserving.

Profit is simply revenue minus cost.

This product brought us a large margin.

A small gain is better than a great loss.

Labor productivity is also quite low For most economies in the region, service sector productivity is less than 20 of the OECD average.

The productivity of Nuevo León, Mexico, is higher than in South Korea, but that of Guerrero, another Mexican state, resembles levels in Honduras.

Those in business try to shrink their declared income to the smallest amount possible, or not declare any income at all.

American productivity is among the highest in the world.

Productivity is a measure of output per hour worked. So a company that fires all its workers and then ships from stock can look very productive until it runs outs of stock.

Where's art? I got productivity. I got sports.

Productivity is still higher in the US, after all.