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Unemployment hit 8.9 percent in April and some predict that number could climb over 10 percent in 2009 as major companies further streamline operations to combat the recession. While some industries are more labor intensive than others, employee productivity is a key measure that managers and investors look at when evaluating performance.
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Using data from ThomsonReuters, we took a look at how much revenue and profit S&P 500 companies generated per employee over the past 12 months (Q2 2008 - Q1 2009), compared within each of the S&P 500’s [.SPX
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Host Hotels [HST
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], two REITs lead the S&P 500 in employee productivity. The next few pages look at which companies in each sector are squeezing the most (and least) out of their shrinking workforces. Keep in mind that employee productivity is only one metric in evaluating companies and varies widely between industries.
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Data is a real-time snapshot *Data is delayed at least 15 minutes