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Cyber Monday deals blow to productivity
Las Vegas employers likely lost some money on Cyber Monday because of lost productivity.
If every employee in Las Vegas spent 20 minutes at work Monday browsing online deals, that would translate to an estimated $6.8 million in unproductive wages, according to workplace expert Andy Challenger.
“It’s impossible for employers to combat that,” said Challenger, who is vice president of Chicago-based jobs firm Challenger, Gray and Christmas Inc.
Shoppers were expected to spend $6.6 billion on Cyber Monday, up more than 16 percent from a year ago, according to Adobe Analytics, the research arm of software-maker Adobe.
Even if some employers blocked certain online shopping sites, it didn’t do much good.
“Everybody’s got a machine in their pocket, disconnected from an employer’s network, that is pinging them alerts all day about sales,” Challenger said.
Web traffic from smartphones and tablets was expected to top that of desktop computers for the first time this year, Adobe said.
“These companies that are promoting online shopping are getting better and better all the time at drawing you to their sites,” Challenger said.
And this year, retailers are rolling out even more promotions for Cyber Monday, hoping to keep people buying stuff on their smartphones or computers.
As part of their Cyber Monday deals, Target and Toys R Us offered 15 percent off most items on their
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Jessup said there had been a number of lengthy discussions with the Raiders on the joint-use agreement.
“I think that we’re very close,” Jessup said. “The process has gone well; it’s been productive.”
Many meetings
Jessup said UNLV representaives have met face to face with Raiders President Marc Badain and Dan Ventrelle, the team’s executive vice president and general counsel, “about a half-dozen times” and have had numerous conference calls and in-house conversations about the agreement, which will spell out details of the ongoing relationship between the Raiders and the Rebels on access to the stadium and the university’s ability to make it look like a UNLV venue.
Workbeganlastsummerandisn’t expected to be completed until January or February.
“Everybody’s busy,” Jessup said. “They’ve got so many other things they need to get done. And they’re in the middle of a season and they’re managing a team and renegotiating contracts. … I think it’s just that there’salotofworktobedonehere in a short amount of time.”
Asked about what issues have been completed and what terms remain to be negotiated, Jessup was hesitanttoprovidedetails.buthe did outline the approval process that liesaheadwiththenevadaboardof Regents.
“Ireallydon’twanttosaywhat specifically are the remaining items because I don’t think that would be fair to anybody involved in the negotiating on this thing at this point,” Jessup said.
One area that isn’t a part of the conversation: the use of UNLV parkinglotsforfansongamedays.
Two-step approval
“I also have to say that once we’re
done with this part of the process, we’renotdone,becauseultimately, itwouldthengotoourregents,”he said. “(Chancellor Thom Reilly) has committed to the regents that that would be in a two-step fashion, one meeting where we would report out on everything and they would get to digest it and react to it, and then