Productivity slows, labor costs up
CNN Money
A revised reading on worker productivity in the U.S. reported growth of 1.9% for the fourth quarter of 2007, an increase to the previously reported annual growth rate of 1.8%, according to a government report Wednesday.
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Online golf game handicaps productivity
CNN Money
Whether the economy improves or weakens over the next year is anyone's guess, but I'd like to make a bold prediction for 2008: by June, white-collar productivity will fall through the floor like a Looney Tunes anvil dropped from a skyscraper.
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Lam Research focuses on tool productivity in Taiwan training center
EDN
Fremont, Calif-based semiconductor manufacturing equipment supplier Lam Research Corp opened Tuesday its global product training center in Hsinchu, Taiwan that will offer training programs aimed at helping customers speed the ramp to production on new Lam Research process tools as well as improve the productivity of existing Lam Research systems.
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