The Bureau of Disability Services (BDS) has a large pool of clerical employees who process level one disability claim forms on network computers. When BDS hires a new clerical employee, it takes that person about 56 minutes to process a form. The learning curve for this job is 82 percent, but no additional learning will take place after the 50th form is processed. DBS has recently acquired a smaller competitor that will add 800 new forms per week to its clerical pool. If an employee works six hours per day per five days week, how many employees would be hired to complete 1,000 forms per week.

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