Each team should select an industry for analysis. Each team member selects a firm within that industry and collects net sales and number of employee data for the current year, one year prior, and two years prior, from annual reports. Each team member computes the sales-per-employee for the current year and one year prior. Each team should also collect average sales per employee data for its industry;

see www.bizstats.com—Employee Productivity—for industry data. Finally, each team prepares a written analysis of the operating efficiency of its selected firms, based on sales-per-employee.