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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. More-stable scheduling increased sales and labor productivity. Labor productivity increased by 5%, in an industry where productivity grew by only 2.5% The results were striking. We hope not.

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How to Reduce Primary Care Doctors’ Workloads While Improving Care

Harvard Business

While some aspects of care clearly require doctor and patient to be in the same place at the same time, many demonstrably don’t. Just imagine the operational demand if primary care providers also had to actively monitor their patients’ health data between office visits. Less Time, Better Care.

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