MoonMan,

There's no doubt most businesses will improve their productivity when they
trim staff, as so many have. The following is a quote from the article, "But
the improvement came at a price. Businesses, responding to the lingering
effects of last year's recession, cut back on their payrolls. That caused
the total number of hours worked to fall at a rate of 1.9 percent."

Follow this link to the full story at msnbc.com
http://www.msnbc.com/news/748742.asp?0si=

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-----Original Message-----
From: Earl Moon [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 11:37 AM
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Subject: [TN] Productivity Way Up


Folks,

In Jeff's great rag is an article on productivity numbers. Don't know how
many of you all remember past recessions but the Gov always anounces great
numbers durring a downturn.

What's your opinion? I've always believed if you lay off enough workers,
productivity goes way up suggesting the only correlation is to that fact as
companies work harder and less smart, with fewer employees. Another set of
numbers not painting a TRUE picture of the economic climate?

MoonMan

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