Its brochures cite a study by the American Pet Products Manufacturers Association, concluding that dogs in the office reduce employees'stress level, blood pressure, absentee rate _ and increase the amount of work that gets done.
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"There are undoubtedly brilliant and able female students out there, but employers know that quit rates and absentee rates are higher for female employees, " said Atsushi Seike, a professor of labor economics at Keio University.
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So in 1995 the board decided that if absenteeism on a holiday reached a threshold 18 percentage points above the average student absentee rate of about 3.5 percent, the schools would be closed on that holiday as of the following year.
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The plant at Willow Run had labor problems, in particular high absentee rates and rapid employee turnover; the factory was nearly an hour's drive from Detroit, and the imposition of wartime gasoline and tire rationing had made the daily commute difficult.
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"What a lot of people were realizing was that after a trauma, absentee rates go up, productivity rates go down and turnover increases, " says James Clingan, a member of the trauma response team at Family Service of Fort Worth.
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In announcing the appointment, the mayor first praised Maldonado for achieving " a 50 percent decrease in both overtime spending and the employee absentee rate " at the juvenile justice agency, which has 600 employees and a budget of about $ 80 million.
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But Ms . Cohen, who has endorsed Sal Albanese for mayor, is helped not only by the resources of the Democratic organization but also by Lasher's having been the subject of a number of articles pointing out his high absentee rate at committee meetings.
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The school district absentee rate rose 58.5 % over the two days . According to the chairman of the Boycott Committee, about 70 % of the students attending Freedom Schools were people of color, predominantly African American, while approximately 30 % were white.
