Sentences with phrase «americans felt they worked»

Despite data from an ABC News poll that indicated only 26 percent of Americans felt they worked too hard, analysts have found that not only do people from the United States work longer hours than individuals in other countries, but they also take less time off and retire later.

It is estimated that a whopping 62 % of Americans feel their work is the major cause of stress in their lives.

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According to an American Psychological Association study, «Almost all employees (93 percent) who reported feeling valued say they are motivated to do their best at work.»

«We felt very strongly, that as a company, especially as an employer with 50,000 people with a large percentage of them Hispanic - Americans and African - Americans who were in pain, that it was definitely a work issue,» she said.

More than half — 54 percent — of working Americans think further education would help them feel better about themselves, but only 40 percent of self - employed people agree.

According to web conferencing company InterCall, 30 % of Americans using smartphones for work feel obliged to keep them on all the time, including on vacation.

«I don't agree, but Americans seem to feel the government works best when the White House and the Congress are run by different parties.

«Sometimes I feel like maybe it's a fluke that I even made it in, because my friends aren't that different from me,» says Martina Abrahams, an African American woman who works at a financial tech company in San Francisco and previously worked at Google.

African - Americans who had transitioned from female to male felt that, as men, they couldn't express frustration or annoyance at work without being sanctioned — they were seen as being aggressive, even threatening.

Working with SurveyMonkey, Axios polled 4,638 Americans about their opinions on a broad range of topics, including politics, the opioid crisis — and their feelings about Boomers.

And when asked to rate how stressed they felt on a scale from 1 to 10, Americans only rated work slightly more stressful (6.4) than home (5).

«As a patriotic American, I am reluctant to leave my post as director of the National Economic Council because I feel a duty to fulfil my commitment to work on behalf of the American people.

I'm convinced that Donald Trump, a Republican, won the presidential election because his pledge to reform the tax code and deregulate resonated with both white - collar and blue - collar Americans who felt as if the U.S. economy was no longer working for them.

Key findings for the North American (U.S. and Canada) workforce surveyed in the study include: • 51 % of employees are not happy at work • 45 % of employees trust their company's leadership • 61 % of employees don't know their company's mission • 57 % of employees are not motivated by their company's mission • 60 % of employees don't know their company's vision • 57 % of employees don't feel recognized for their progress at work • 61 % of employees don't know their organization's cultural values • 50 % of employees don't expect to be with their organization a year from now

In fact, too many working Americans of all ages say they aren't saving any of their paycheck, despite feeling more secure about their job and their earnings.

«The traditional age for retirement in the U.S. is 65, but many Americans feel they'll have to keep working into their 70s before they can retire comfortably... if they ever can,» says Executive Editor of InternationalLiving.com, Jennifer Stevens.

While not neglecting his duties to his day as a professor or citizen (he supported the anti-Nazi Confessing Church and welcomed the Americans in 1945), he felt called to essentially one work as a preacher.

Silverman's tactics might not be what every atheists feel when it comes to the imaginary war on Christmas, but the organization American Atheists does very great work that should be recognized.

Needless to say, he was prescient in this regard, and his advice seems just as relevant as ever, with the rise to power of a very liberal American president who has wrought unprecedented tensions and created feelings of unprecedented distance between the United States and the state of Israel.

Researchers David and Amber Lapp have written convincingly of the need to address the alienation felt by working - class American families: «There's no substitute for the service of being a good neighbor.»

As an American Muslim who has worked overseas for the sake of peace, who has siblings (also Muslim) serving in the American Armed Forces, and who doesn't embrace ignorance, intolerance, or blind hatred from any race, religion, or creed, I feel that some of you are missing the mark as fellow human beings.

A half - dozen female former Mavericks or American Airlines Center employees contacted by SI claim that they left the sports sector because of a work environment and structure that left them feeling vulnerable and devalued while protecting — and continuing to employ — powerful men who misbehaved.

In a rare interview in November 2011, Kroenke expanded on how he feels this American system works.

At 63 years old, he feels connected with high school athletes working the annual Under Armour All - American game, a showcase of the top players in the country.

Having worked in the American collegiate system, Reider has experienced the benefits of scholarship systems bringing athletes from all over the world, and he feels British athletes need to adopt a more adventurous approach, citing Mo Farah's decision to move to Oregon as a proven method of success.

In the same way that the zero - tolerance approach to discipline sends precisely the opposite psychological message to disadvantaged kids than what we now know they need in order to feel motivated and engaged with school, so do many basic elements of traditional American pedagogy work in direct opposition to what the psychological research tells us will help those children succeed.

Katherine Barber started the African - American Breastfeeding Alliance last August because she felt the Schaumburg - based La Leche League, which works to promote breast - feeding, was not meeting the needs of black women.

Trump's Republican Party spoke to two groups of American voters: the far right base of the GOP, and to the near two - thirds of Americans who feel the country is heading in the «wrong direction» — many of these will include America's working families, steelworkers and coalminers, bridge - builders and road - pavers, retail workers and restaurant staff to whom the socio - economic forces of globalization and stagnant wages have been woefully unkind.

While so many others were feverishly working the room or lining up for a chance to speak to Chuck Schumer, Reshma took the time to speak with an intern of mine, a young Palestinian American woman who was shy and felt a little out of place in the room.

«As a newcomer to elected office, Donald Trump has shown remarkable political skill that has energized Americans who have felt disenfranchised by a government that hasn't worked for them,» Cox said in a statement.

Whether it is working hand - in - hand with community leaders to empower minority candidates running for office or working to ensure that African - Americans have access to quality health care, schools and employment, I feel privileged to have the opportunity to lift up our communities and work with and for African - Americans in the Bronx and across New York.

By 1965, thanks to the inspiring work of Raymond Lindemann, the Odums and many others, trophic dynamic ecology had proved the inter-relatedness of things, paving the way to the shock people felt on reading Silent Spring by the American marine biologist and writer Rachel Carson.

Before her 2000 diagnosis of Wegener's granulomatosis — a disease that inflames the blood vessels and impairs important organs — the environmental microbiologist sometimes felt that she was valued less for her work than for being the only female Native American in HSU's College of Natural Resources and Sciences.

As a result of political discussions at work this election season, at least 1 in 10 working Americans said they have felt tense or stressed out (17 percent), have been more cynical and negative at work (15 percent), have had more difficulty getting work done (10 percent), have been less productive at work (13 percent) and that their work quality has suffered (10 percent).

A recent survey revealed what many of us feel: millions of Americans feel guilty about taking downtime and check email or work on weekends and...

If you are like most Americans, you feel tired — no, exhausted — and have a difficult time focusing on your work.

Especially when I used to work at American Apparel, I felt like it was the best excuse to wear them all the time so now I'm really glad they've made a comeback and I'm definitely taking them into Spring with me.

1st base is when you first make out with your companion or (boy / girl) it is dry lips, then grdualy put your tounge into the others mouth and play with it foer a little bit which is 2nd you feel a higher level of sexual conection and start to get into 3rd base when you start feeling on each other slowwly and intamately while stile french he is done touching and stroaking your upper parts (breasts) you start to feel more intamate and both of you work your way Among American adolescents, baseball metaphors for sex are often used as euphemisms for the degree of physical intimacy achieved in sexual encounters or relationships.

The American feels, all too often, like the world's longest music video: the shots are all nicely composed, and there are compelling scenes that work in miniature, but nothing ever adds up to a complete narrative.

While Unsolved isn't quite as slick and incisive as that FX series [American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson], it is an absorbing, provocative, and extraordinarily well - acted work of television that takes a narrative approach just novel enough to make you feel like you're seeing these long - cold cases through fresh eyes.

For those without strong feelings for the Harrison Ford - era Clancy adaptations, which were polished but largely unmemorable, American Assassin works best as a little - league version of one of those or, in more contemporary terms, as an unsurprising origin story for what the filmmakers obviously hope is the beginning of a franchise.

And while most of The Loveless feels like what it is (a Columbia graduate thesis for Bigelow and a preview of coming attractions for Bigelow's and Montgomery's future work), there remains something of the deadpan all - American road flick that predicts Jim Jarmusch's own early - career take on the same.

«Mudbound» takes place at a particular time in American history, when poor white men felt their standing threatened by their hard - working black neighbors, when laws were passed to keep blacks down — or mudbound, if you will — and the Ku Klux Klan arose to enforce additional restrictions that never found their way into the books.

You're going to have a blast watching Henry Cavill and Armie Hammer portraying opposites as American and Russian spies during the Cold War that must put their differences aside and work together to infiltrate some dangerous people and locate a nuclear bomb; the banter that they share regarding the technical gadgets from their respective countries, their dissonance in personality (Cavill is the fast - talking, suave ladies man while Hammer is the brute that much control his temper), and constant feeling to one - up the other is all deeply fun.

(Frances McDormand, Tilda Swinton and Bill Murray all Coen staples, were also the adult cast of Moonrise Kingdom) As the two filmmakers working today that do not operate in franchises or sequels, but still make popular entertainment on a significant scale, they feel like increasingly rare birds in the American movie landscape.

Neither lead should be particularly recognizable to American audiences; Knudsen has worked predominantly in Denmark and this is only D'Anna's second film (the first being Berberian Sound Studio), but these roles feel like a second skin, their actions never betraying their characters» motivations.

I feel as though many people knew Mitchell from his first work, THE MYTH OF THE AMERICAN SLEEPOVER, but with DREAMS, I don't think as many people are familiar with Haley's first feature, THE NEW YEAR.

Vaughn also disclosed that we may see an American Kingsman in the forthcoming sequel and why he felt drawn so often to Millar's work.

Voter suppression, a Congress that has refused to work on behalf of the people, and a constant barrage of social injustices have left far too many Americans feeling alienated, grasping at straws and willing to throw anything... Read More

«African - American males are less likely than females to feel capable academically,» observes University of Pittsburgh social - work professor Larry Davis.