All of the Following Are Ways That Employers Increase Profits

question 8

Multiple Choice

All of the following are ways that employers increase profits EXCEPT

• A) supporting credentialing, which brings in highly qualified workers for wages that only award qualification, not being highly qualified
• B) replacing workers with new technologies that, even if they are expensive to develop or purchase, cost less over the long term
• C) moving factories to areas of the world with strong traditions of laborers' rights
• D) threatening to replace workers with other workers who would be willing to work for low wages should those already hired demand higher incomes

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