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Why Reducing Stress Stabilises Your Profits

Tom Spencer

million days were lost in 2015/16 due to stress. As an owner’s ability to perform suffers due to stress, the management of the business can deteriorate. Thanks to technological advancements, this is now very cost effective with companies like Process Street or SweetProcess specialising in standardising operating procedures.

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Research: When Retail Workers Have Stable Schedules, Sales and Productivity Go Up

Harvard Business

In study after study for over a decade, operations researchers have found that retailers understaff during peak hours. Once the full experiment was launched in November 2015, 28 stores in the San Francisco Bay Area and Chicago were randomly assigned to control and intervention groups.

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