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Lifestyle Medicine and Worker Productivity. [PDF]
Am J Lifestyle Med, 2021 The issue of employee productivity has become a major concern for companies. Inefficiency can occur at every stage of production either as poor design, worker limitation, or other factors. It is generally assumed that a healthy worker is more productive than an unhealthy worker.
Burton WN, Edington DW, Schultz AB.
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COPD affects worker productivity and health care costs [PDF]
International Journal of COPD, 2018 Jeetvan G Patel,1 Anna D Coutinho,2 Orsolya E Lunacsek,2 Anand A Dalal3 1Global Health Economics, Amgen, Thousand Oaks, CA, USA; 2AmerisourceBergen, Xcenda, Palm Harbor, FL, USA; 3US Health Economics and Outcomes Research, Novartis Pharmaceuticals, East
Patel JG +3 more
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Warming from tropical deforestation reduces worker productivity in rural communities. [PDF]
Nat Commun, 2021 The accelerating loss of tropical forests in the 21st century has eliminated cooling services provided by trees in low latitude countries. Cooling services can protect rural communities and outdoor workers with little adaptive capacity from adverse heat ...
Masuda YJ +7 more
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The Impact of Pollution on Worker Productivity. [PDF]
Am Econ Rev, 2012 This paper assesses the impact of pollution on worker productivity by relating exogenous daily variations in ozone with productivity of agricultural workers as recorded under piece rate contracts. We find robust evidence that ozone levels well below federal air quality standards have a significant impact on productivity. These results suggest that, in
Zivin JG, Neidell M.
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Economic costs of heat-induced reductions in worker productivity due to global warming
Global Environmental Change, 2020 We assess economic costs of heat-induced reductions in worker productivity at global scale under RCP2.6 and RCP8.5. Losses in worker productivity are calculated by using an empirically estimated epidemiological exposure-response function, and the ...
Jana Sillmann +2 more
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Towards a Holistic Framework of Knowledge Worker Productivity
Administrative Sciences, 2022 Many jobs today are predominantly knowledge work. This makes organizations dependent on value created by knowledge workers (KWs). Many of the initiatives to improve and manage knowledge worker productivity (KWP) give unpredictable results depending on ...
Helga Guðrún Óskarsdóttir +3 more
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Worker Productivity in Operations Management
Foundations and Trends® in Technology, Information and Operations Management, 2019 From Frederick Taylor’s study of brick laying manual laborers in the early 20th century, to the multi-year benchmarking of automotive plant productivity as part of the International Motor Vehicle Program, the systematic observation, measurement, and analysis of work has a strong tradition in operations management. Traditional manufacturing provided the
Diwas Kc
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Sustainability, 2019 This study determined how a toxic workplace environment can influence worker productivity, directly and indirectly, using work depression as a mediating variable.
Rashid Maqbool +2 more
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Information, Technology, and Information Worker Productivity [PDF]
Information Systems Research, 2012 We econometrically evaluate information worker productivity at a midsize executive recruiting firm and assess whether the knowledge that workers accessed through their electronic communication networks enabled them to multitask more productively. We estimate dynamic panel data models of multitasking, knowledge networks, and productivity using several ...
Sinan Kayhan Aral +2 more
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Journal of Advanced Mechanical Design, Systems, and Manufacturing, 2021 Recently, with the expansion of the Japanese manufacturing industry and increase in local production overseas, recruiting and retaining local employees responsible for local production is a matter of concern because overseas factories have been ...
Hironori HIBINO +2 more
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