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Scarcity

Improving the Absenteeism Rate at Work

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Scarcity is a basic economic problem: people have unlimited wants and needs, but the world has limited resources. Resources in that equation include materials, capital, and labor. A pasta factory in southern Italy faced a very particular sort of labor shortage. The Barilla pasta factory in Foggia, Italy had enough employees to keep up with […]

Posted bynpr_h1dlv5October 15, 2019October 29, 2019Posted inScarcity

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