Susanna strongly believes in the relationship between workplace communication and employee productivity, and she agrees with alex pentland and benjamin waber’s findings on workplace communication patterns. she finds that two of her employees, steven and amy, are talking to each other in amy’s cubicle. she is likely to:
1. subtly hint to steven that he should be getting back to work.
2. allow them to continue for a reasonable amount of time.
3. ensure that they only talk about work-related topics.
4. ensure that they only talk about non work-related topics.

Aquatic marine stores company manufactures special metallic materials and decorative fittings for luxury yachts that require highly skilled labor. aquatic uses standard costs to prepare its flexible budget. for the first quarter of the year, direct materials and direct labor standards for one of their popular products were as follows: direct materials: 3 pounds per unit; $ 6 per pound direct labor: 4 hours per unit; $ 19 per hour during the first quarter, aquatic produced 5 comma 000 units of this product. actual direct materials and direct labor costs were $ 65 comma 000 and $ 330 comma 000, respectively. for the purpose of preparing the flexible budget, calculate the total standard direct materials cost at a production volume of 5 comma 000 units.