time saved

the difference between the time allowed for completing a work task, the ‘standard time’ (see WORK MEASUREMENT) and the actual time taken. INCENTIVE BONUS SCHEMES often use a percentage of the time saved in their bonus calculations.

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Lowell wrote me about something of mine that he had been reading: "You must sweat the Heine out of your bones as men do mercury," and his kindness for me would not be content with less than the entire expulsion of the poison that had in its good time saved my life.

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Nothing but my cool behavior at this critical time saved us from another panic.

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they respect the dead, and it has this time saved their own lives, and, it may be, the lives of better men too.

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At present, I said, the students of philosophy are quite young; beginning when they are hardly past childhood, they devote only the time saved from moneymaking and housekeeping to such pursuits; and even those of them who are reputed to have most of the philosophic spirit, when they come within sight of the great difficulty of the subject, I mean dialectic, take themselves off.

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The tool was designed to provide a high level overview of the hours, productivity, and the value of time saved.

Hawkeye launches free business aircraft productivity calculator

These journeys to and from the stations are the cause of my concern, which is, that the usual ongoing delays, traffic jams and road-works on existing roads that frequently disrupt road travel plans will still be there, and will cancel out the time saved on the train journey.

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The time saved is equivalent to the time it took to build the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco (4 years), the Sydney Harbour Bridge (8 years), the Eiffel Tower in Paris (2 years) and the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, which is the world s tallest building (6 years).

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Another focuses on the time saved using swiftcover.

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Time saved is a misleading and unconvincing indicator, because you probably won't be able to demonstrate it.

Time saved--a misleading justification for KM: the bottom line for knowledge management is better decision making and higher productivity. (Knowledge Management)

Or, it can include the time saved in a property's back office by consolidating billing.

Triboro president: Sound maintainence can help businesses save time

Commute Profile 2000 found that as traffic backs up in other lanes, time saved by commuters who use carpool lanes to carpool or vanpool continues to increase.

Carpool lanes saving Bay Area commuters time

The qualitative assessment of the Web page includes both time saved and individual responses to the site.