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1. Running a vet clinic with multiple staff (vet techs, secretaries, etc.) vs running a clinic with minimum staff that you rely on for more than one job. When you have enough staff that everyone has their job and roles and keeps busy, it has a smooth-flowing practice. If you are understaffed and expect people to do more than one job throughout the day, this is how things become backlogged, and things get forgotten. Having a proper work team is essential to running a successful business as long as everyone buys in.

2. Working with a vet that only works from their permanent office versus working with a mobile and stationary vet. Working in only one place only gives clients the option to bring their animals to you at the clinic. If a vet is mobile and stationary it gives the patient the option to travel to you or for you to travel to them. Having more to give can help you to gain more business and relationships.

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1) Having an elementary school classroom where 100 students are taught by only 1 teacher. This wouldn't work as so many kids would instigate constant chatter, and it would be impossible for the teacher to teach them all anything. So hiring additional staff, such as extra teachers, or even splitting the class into multiple classes, each with 20-25 students in each, makes it much easier for the teachers to manage their students.

2) Having the appropriate number of workers on a farm, one driving a combine while another worker drives the grain truck at the same time. This way, each person sticks to their role, and the efficiency of the farm is increased significantly. If one to many or too few is added, then efficiency is disrupted. 1 less worker means 1 person has to drive either a combine or a truck, taking up much more time. And 3 or more workers means more people being there, not given anything to do.

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1) Meal prepping is much easier and efficient when my siblings help me prepare the food. However, if too many people are helping the kitchen gets crammed and it takes longer to meal prep.

2) TA's are helpful for professors when trying to mark assignments or tests. However, if you have too many TA's, there will not be enough work for all of them and there will be an excess of labour

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1. School: if you have 3 classrooms and 60 kids with one teacher they will need to run around and try to teach everyone. Going up to 4 staff you could have a principal who oversees and a teacher for each class. If you jump to 8 staff and have a custodian and maybe some teachers for different subjects, the kids will continue to learn, but for half the time the teachers will not be teaching.

2. Sports team: if you have 15 players and 1 coach they can try to do bug group exercises but it will be hard to work individually to develop skills. If you add an assistant coach then they can divide tasks in teaching and split the players into positional groups. If you add 2 more staff like a trainer and another coach you will still have good input for the players but there is a decline in the effectiveness of all the coaches.

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If you only had one person chasing animals, working chutes, vaccinating, tagging, ringing, book keeping, etc. It would take a lot of time and would be more stressful for the cattle. However if you had 5 or 6 people you could have one person chasing, another working chutes, maybe two people at the head gate and a final person on books. It is a much more efficient system.

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1. Say I am cleaning the house. I have to do the laundry, wash the dishes, and vacuum. If it is just me doing it, I have to do all the things separately. If my sister is helping me, she can wash the dishes and I can put the laundry in, then vacuum. If my other sister joins us, she can do the laundry, but the marginal return is lower because while the washer is running, she has nothing to do.

2. Milking cows is another example. If it is just me milking in a double 12 parlour, I have to do all the prep and post dip alone. If there is a second person, they can do one half of the parlour and I can do the other. If there are three of us, two of us can prep and the other can do post dip. If there are 4 of us, we would be standing around waiting a great deal of the time, so it would be a waste of labour.

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example 1:
A 1 vet practice with no support staff vs. a 1 vet practice with support staff (vet assistant/technician)
The solo practitioner would be bogged down with technical duties which would decrease number of patients seen. With support staff, technical duties can be delegated so the vet can see more patients.

example 2:
A vet practice with in-house laboratory services vs. a vet practice who only sends out to an external laboratory.
Having an in-house laboratory requires a financial investment into equipment, and staff to run the tests, with an expectation of generating higher revenue for the vet practice. Sending out removes the obligation for equipment or delegating staff to the duty of running laboratory diagnostics, but the revenue is gained by the external lab, not the vet practice.

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Keeping combines rolling is always top priority when harvesting grain. A great way to ensure this is of course to have enough trucks while avoiding having more than one waiting in the field. Sometimes trucks can't keep up, and a bagger is a great tool to ensure cutting carries on. Using a combination of equipment for situations like this is highly efficient.

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One example could be at a retail store. Having only one worker for the entire store would be slow, and not efficient. However, if you had 5 workers to run the entire store, it would be much more streamlined. there could be two people as cashiers, one person greeting people at the door, and another two workers on the floor putting away merchandise and helping customers find what they are looking for.
A second example could be a ski hill. One worker would not be able to manage an entire ski hill, because there simply is too much to do. However, if you were to hire many people, then everything within the ski hill would become more efficient.

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1. Taking classes at the U of S remotely, if I have one computer monitor I am only able to watch the lessons and then hand write my notes.
If i Have 2 computer monitors, and the same amount of time I can have my lessons open on one screen and type my notes on the other, making my use of time much more efficient. Therefore I am able to power through classes more efficiently. Also, fewer hand cramps. My productivity might increase with a 3rd monitor, because I could use it for supplemental learning (youtube links etc), but I don't see my productivity in learning increasing with the addition of a 4th monitor because there is only 1 of me. I'd be maxed out at 3 monitors.
2. A concrete plant has a big pour to do, they hire drivers to drive the trucks and a batch operator to batch each truck out. They have to take into consideration the total amount of concrete required, the capacity each truck is capable of, the time it takes to drive onsite, unload, wash down, and drive back to the plant.
This ensures load consistency, as well as efficiency so that each load is arriving on site as the last truck is leaving/washing down.
If they hired more people to drive, there would be concrete loads waiting on site to be poured, which would cost $ in idle labour and would also run the risk of having a load of concrete returned because it had timed out.

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1. A hospital ER: the variable input is labour (from the doctors and nurses), the fixed input is the number of beds/exam rooms in the ER, and the output is patients seen. More patients can be seen with increased units of labour until the point where bed/exam room capacity is reached.
2. A bakery: the variable input is labour, the fixed input is number of ovens, mixing bowls, ingredients etc., and the output is quantity of baked goods made. Eventually, hiring one more baker would not increase the quantity of baked goods made, as there are not enough fixed inputs to make use of. This extra baker would be idle and be costing the bakery owner in wages.

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1. A farmer has a garden. They have help from their kids (labor) and enough tools for everyone (machinery/capital). The harvest of the vegetables (output) will be relatively  high, becuase everyone has a job and the tools to do it.
2. An office could hire another assistant (adding labor) balancing the workload, which could increase efficiency in the workplace.

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1- A mechanics shop owner could hire 3 mechanics to fix equipment while he answers the phone and does the books. The likely outcome would be  a more efficiently run shop as equipment will be getting fixed faster and the office work will stay in order.
2- A farmer spends time and extra money researching and seeding the best genetically modified seed. The outcome is a higher crop yield that results in more money being made to cover production costs.

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1.Dairy farming- If you put care and time in your animals, invest in the proper food and nutrition the cows will then produce more milk and have a longer life expectancy as a dairy cow.
2. School- you input money, time, and risk high levels of stress to be able to have the output of a good job with security and pay.
- jessica

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1. A chicken farmer could buy vaccinated chicks and good quality feed for them. The likely effect would be healthier. heavier chickens which would result in more kg being produced. 2. A chicken farmer could buy more quota and build a bigger barn to produce more kg of chicken.