Andrea Owns We Help, a Concierge Company with 63 Employees

question 9

Multiple Choice

Andrea owns We Help, a concierge company with 63 employees providing everyday services such as walking dogs, running errands such as going to the post office, paying bills, and picking up groceries from supermarket. Andrea realizes that the economic momentum is slowing down.Major corporations that were her regular clients have trimmed their budgets and are not using her services any longer.Andrea now has more employees than she needs.This situation is an example of _____.

• A)off-peak pricing
• B)idle production capacity
• C)inverse demand
• D)excess demand

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Definitions:

Max Weber

A German thinker in the fields of sociology, philosophy, and political economics whose concepts significantly impacted the study and theory of society.

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George Ritzer

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