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Your question doesn't make sense because you have used words incorrectly, because you don't understand them.
I don't wish to criticise you for not understanding words, there was a time when I didn't understand certain words.
But I do criticise you for wilfully refusing to accept explanations or to correct your ignorance.
I don't wish to criticise you for not understanding words, there was a time when I didn't understand certain words.
But I do criticise you for wilfully refusing to accept explanations or to correct your ignorance.
No it would not.
I'd be using the same saw and would cut 20% more timber than you because I work longer hours.
20% more planks for the same money. I'd put you out of business.
You can go sign on the dole and I'll still be sawing planks.
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Ok lets put the productivity one to bed.
I have been a manager , production director and financial director in a manufacturing business for over 20 years so let me just explain as easily as I can exactly what productivity means.
Productivity measures output over time , that is all. You don't have to mess with figures to establish productivity but you can use your productivity figure to calculate turnover. You do however have to tie in your productivity with your other costings.
A typical productivity report in my case manufacturing furniture would be calculated to a product per man basis on a weekly basis.
ie we worked 40 hrs and we had 25 staff and we made 6000 chairs .
We usually worked a 40 hrs week so we could ignore the hours and simply divide 6000 by 25 to get the productivity figure.
You need to create a common value so that you can compare weekly productivity whether your hours change or your staff numbers change but what you are really trying to calculate so you can compare like for like on a weekly basis is How many chairs per man did we do this week?
If you only work 3 days for example if you have had a bank holiday then to achieve your like for like figure you would just divide your chairs per man figure by 3 and multiply by 5 to extrapolate what your weekly output would have been.
It gets more complicated if you decided to do overtime to increase productivity for two reasons. One your wage bill will be disproportionately increased as you pay overtime and your chair per man figure wont properly reflect your usual productivity but you can change the factors to compensate for a quick approximation.
Obviously if you work 6 days equivalent you would divide by 6 and times by 5 to arrive at your comparative figure.
If you have two staff member called fast Lenny and Slow Ben and they both work on similar workstations but Fast Lenny makes more widgets in the same time as Slow Ben then simply put Fast Lenny is more productive.
Giving Slow Ben more time to catch up and make the same amount of widgets as Fast Lenny will never make him equally as productive even if he happily does overtime every night.
The only way Slow Ben would be as equally productive as Fast Lenny is if either A he sped up or B he did all his overtime for free.
Simply increasing hours does increase output but does not increase productivity . In fact staff working longer hours are LESS productive as they tire and slow down.
You are ALWAYS better having the right amount of staff to produce the goods you need within a normal working week. If your existing staff do overtime then your costs go up while their workrate goes down.
I have been a manager , production director and financial director in a manufacturing business for over 20 years so let me just explain as easily as I can exactly what productivity means.
Productivity measures output over time , that is all. You don't have to mess with figures to establish productivity but you can use your productivity figure to calculate turnover. You do however have to tie in your productivity with your other costings.
A typical productivity report in my case manufacturing furniture would be calculated to a product per man basis on a weekly basis.
ie we worked 40 hrs and we had 25 staff and we made 6000 chairs .
We usually worked a 40 hrs week so we could ignore the hours and simply divide 6000 by 25 to get the productivity figure.
You need to create a common value so that you can compare weekly productivity whether your hours change or your staff numbers change but what you are really trying to calculate so you can compare like for like on a weekly basis is How many chairs per man did we do this week?
If you only work 3 days for example if you have had a bank holiday then to achieve your like for like figure you would just divide your chairs per man figure by 3 and multiply by 5 to extrapolate what your weekly output would have been.
It gets more complicated if you decided to do overtime to increase productivity for two reasons. One your wage bill will be disproportionately increased as you pay overtime and your chair per man figure wont properly reflect your usual productivity but you can change the factors to compensate for a quick approximation.
Obviously if you work 6 days equivalent you would divide by 6 and times by 5 to arrive at your comparative figure.
If you have two staff member called fast Lenny and Slow Ben and they both work on similar workstations but Fast Lenny makes more widgets in the same time as Slow Ben then simply put Fast Lenny is more productive.
Giving Slow Ben more time to catch up and make the same amount of widgets as Fast Lenny will never make him equally as productive even if he happily does overtime every night.
The only way Slow Ben would be as equally productive as Fast Lenny is if either A he sped up or B he did all his overtime for free.
Simply increasing hours does increase output but does not increase productivity . In fact staff working longer hours are LESS productive as they tire and slow down.
You are ALWAYS better having the right amount of staff to produce the goods you need within a normal working week. If your existing staff do overtime then your costs go up while their workrate goes down.
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mdf290
Improving your machinery will improve productivity so that wil work but increasing hours will increase output but not productivity.I'd just buy a japanese saw. Same hours, more products.
I win.
simples.
Ruddy hell.
There are people who think privatising BT was a mistake?
There are people who think privatising BT was a mistake?
Does anyone know how to make it smaller?
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