Reaping the benefits for employers The main benefits for employers are: • substantial reductions in business mileage and the costs of congestion • higher productivity from teleworking workers • lower absenteeism and a happier, more loyal, more flexible and less stressed workforce. All the evidence indicates that it is a lack of awareness of the capabilities of workplace culture which inhibit organizations from benefiting from telecommuting, rather than any intrinsic business need to cram all workers into one place for the same 8 hours every day. ... Less purchases ...

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International politics has played a key role in converting new technological opportunities such as travel and communications (globalization in a narrow sense), into new forms of economic regulation and business practices (globalization in its broad sense). ... Marxists argue that globalization has given new power to people that own businesses ("capital" in Marxist terminology). ... Furthermore, governments need business, and business's tax revenues to provide their citizens with expected services. ... Multinational business can manipulate these needs (and perhaps, sometimes, use straight...

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These divisions are then referred to as strategic business units. 3. ... Economic Environment: The state of the macro economy and changes in it can offer marketing opportunities and constraints. ... Theses factors can also bring about a profit opportunity for other products. ... Changes in these factors can offer an opportunity for new products and services. ... Legal Environment: federal, state, local legislation directing at protecting both business competition and consumer rights. ...

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A perception is growing that educational systems in many countries could better respond to the needs of labor markets, help economies to avoid skills gaps, and ensure that adequately trained human capital is available to support business activity as well as to develop innovative capacity and entrepreneurship. ... Government attitudes toward markets and freedoms and the efficiency of its operations are also very important: excessive bureaucracy and red tape, over-regulation, corruption, dishonesty in dealing with public contracts, lack of transparency and trustworthiness, inability to provide a...

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Capitalism is an economic system where such items that can generate monetary value are owned by private businesses and corporations which trade in a 'free market' of competition. ... As Portugal began to slip into the background of the transatlantic slave trade the more developed Western Nations began to take advantage of the huge opportunities of wealth and power that the Western coast of Africa and the "New World" provided. ...

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Regular in Italy, in Europe, widespread business philosophy debilitates social equity, the high purpose of European belief system. ... The European thought is consequently outsider to the union of Europe's business sector economies. ...

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The southern wheel shaped the huge traffic to Brazil which for three centuries was almost the almost exclusive preserve of the largest slave traders of all, the Portuguese.(1) Despite their use of the Portuguese flag, slave traders using the southern wheel ran their business from ports in Brazil, not in Portugal. ...

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The importance of securing natural energy resources is taking center stage in the European Union's (EU) future plans. Turkey, a candidate for a full membership to EU, is located close to 70% of the world's oil and gas reserves. Due to it's proximity to these important resources, Turkey is in a perfect position to host a large pipeline (Nabucco Gas Pipeline) that will carry gas from the Caspian Sea to the Middle East. This would give all the countries involved a necessary alternative to the Russian supply routes - and it would become the fourth most dynamic energy corridor for Eu...

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Hitler had come to power a few weeks earlier and he immediately began the plan, as outlined in his book Mein Kampf, to eliminate "the eternal mushroom of humanity - Jews".2 German Jews were stripped of their citizenship by the Nuremberg Race Laws of 1935 and had their businesses and stockholdings seized in 1938. ...

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