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1. If a firm is worker-sensitive then it will always focus on the benefits and advantages for the employees. In this way the major focus on productivity and sales revenue growth will be affected in a negative manner. Labor costs is an important factor while considering the competitive advantage for a company (Greenberg. 2012). In this tremendous competitive business world, most of the companies prefer to cut down the labor costs wither by providing less wages to the worker or lowering the benefits and compensations.