Sentences with phrase «office at the environment»

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We see thousands of small businesses settle into their perfect office environment every year and we see more of the office based businesses flourish than those who choose to stay at home.

For companies committed to fostering both creativity and productivity in their office environment, leaders and office managers are faced with a challenge: How do you design an office where employees feel just as — if not more — productive as they do at home?

I challenge our team to infuse a little playfulness everyday even in a work environment, it can be while testing our products, team painting events, battling on old arcade games during lunch or getting kids in the office to play with us at an all hands meeting (usually over summer).

In the past year, companies have paid more attention to improving their employee experience, paying attention to the ongoing interactions with their office environment, customers, supervisors, and peers that influence employees» behaviors and satisfaction at work.

TRE was the brainchild of Tim Franklin, director of the Office of Public Partnerships and Engagement at Pennsylvania State University and his wife Nancy, director of outreach sustainability initiatives and assistant director of Penn State's Institutes of Energy and the Environment (PSIEE).

Ask your mentor prospects for a meeting, whether in an office environment, over drinks or at a coffee shop.

They do their best to create a fun environment at the office, with regular gatherings and celebrations.

Beyond healthy bottom lines, employees at these workplaces say it's the work - life balance, the coworkers that become personal friends, and the bureaucracy - free work environments that make these offices great.

Sure, it might feel awkward at first, but taking these small steps will give you understanding and might just make for a better environment in your home, office, or even your nightly hangout.

«The heart of all our offices are generally centered around a dining environment concept, modeled after the dining room table at your home,» says Chris Gorman, Square's head of office experience.

At the same time, many organizations are focusing on creating office environments that «feel flexible.»

The study analyzed data from employees in seven different office environments, including: «single - room office; shared - room office (2 - 3 workers in the room); small, open - plan office (4 - 9 workers); medium - sized, open - plan office (10 - 24 workers); large, open - plan office (more than 24 workers); flex - office (no individual workspaces); and combi - office (less than 20 percent of the workforce is not at individual workstations, team - based work structure).»

Presentation # 2pNSa3, «Tuning the cognitive environment: Sound masking with «natural» sounds in open - plan offices» by Alana G. DeLoach, Jeff P. Carter and Jonas Braasch, will take place on Tuesday, May 19, 2015, at 2:10 PM in Kings.

The renovation will transform UBC's existing business centre at The Mille, which it has operated at a high occupancy level since 2012, into a high quality, contemporary business environment with beautifully designed private offices, collaborative workspace and market - leading IT connectivity.

The wider environment is incredibly important too — would you like to go to the beach after a hard day of work at the office?

Corporate offices, university campuses, hospitals and other built environments will be empowered to create environments where the user is placed at the centre of the service delivery.

Plus at their home office in Iowa, Vi Bella employs several women who have been referred by local agencies to provide them with steady work and a supportive environment to assist in creating stability in their lives.

Both features make these printers equally at home in office, manufacturing or warehouse environments.

If you find yourself having trouble concentrating in an office environment that's either too loud or too silent, white noise can soothe your senses and help you to focus more while you're at work.

He held three ministerial offices, at the Environment, International Development and finally the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

Levine said it was a «rational conclusion» of the Assembly Ethics Committee that Kellner created a hostile working environment through flirtatious comments directed at his office staff.

Jeremy Corbyn said the incumbent Sajid Javid will have to «deal with the hostile environment» at the Home Office and «that he will guarantee absolutely security and safety for the Windrush generation... put through the most appalling trauma».

Cuomo's office confirmed the outreach but said it offered in October to set up a meeting with Sabrina Ty, head of the state Environmental Facilities Corp., and Peter Walke, at the time the governor's assistant secretary for the environment, about securing funding for a filtration system for the municipal water system.

Prior to moving from its long term home in Ascot, the Institute took the decision to create a sustainable office environment that puts technology and employee comfort at its centre.

Meanwhile, Caroline Spelman is thought to be on the way out of the environment portfolio (her biggest achievement: the forestry fiasco which prompted the coalition's first major U-turn); David Jones, a relatively obscure north Wales backbencher, is thought to be Cheryl Gillan's replacement at the Wales Office; and Jeremy Hunt may be on the move from the culture job (stress the maybe).

Also at 11 a.m., the Adirondack Council, Citizen Campaign for the Environment, Environmental Advocates of New York, Riverkeeper and other groups urge Cuomo and state legislators to invest $ 800 million into communities as part of the state budget, LCA Press Room # 130, Legislative Office Building, Albany.

At 11 a.m., amid a growing flood of reports of lead in school drinking water around the state and the country, a coalition of New York public health, environment, and healthy schools advocacy groups will call on state government leaders to take action, LCA Press Room (130), Legislative Office Building, Albany.

Kevin Brennan at business Ivan Lewis at Foreign Office Glenys Kinnock at Foreign Office (from European parliament) Maria Eagle at justice Jim Fitzpatrick at environment Gareth Thomas at international development Joan Ruddock at energy Gillian Merron at health Angela E Smith at the Cabinet Office (from being Brown's PPS) Sadiq Khan at transport Angela Eagle at work and pensions

Stressing that Ms May's measures as Home Secretary had been directed at illegal — not legal — migrants, a Home Office spokesperson said: «It is categorically untrue to say the Home Office has called for a hostile environment for immigrants.

While a vast majority of shelters (320) were found to be in adequate condition, DiNapoli's office still found issues at those shelters that included mold at 51 locations, vermin at seven locations, missing or uninspected fire extinguishers in 26 locations, and an unsafe physical environment in 21 locations.

I encourage anyone with a question, concern or comment regarding our business environment to please contact me at my office anytime,» added Legislator Lorigo.

The governor's office released a statement on Mario Cuomo tonight that said: «He was credited with simultaneously improving the business environment of New York and the quality of life for its citizens, despite a national recession at the time.

Instead of appointing Clarke to the Foreign Office, he replaced the incumbent, Jack Straw, with the environment secretary, Margaret Beckett, who expressed her own surprise at the move by reportedly saying: «Fuck, I'm stunned.»

It's possible that the low - nutrient environment at the curation office somehow favored fungal growth, but Regberg suspects that it's because prior analyses failed to include the right mix of food and incubations times and temperatures in the growth media they used to cultivate the samples.

So Weschler and Wisthaler simulated a typical office environment at the Technical University of Denmark in Copenhagen — two people in a carpeted 28.5 — cubic meter room at a temperature of 23 degrees Celsius with two small stainless steel tables, two chairs, two flat - screen LCD monitors, two headsets, one walkie - talkie, one small mixing fan, a few books, two laptops, two bottles of water and ozone concentrations that reached roughly 32 parts per billion, an average exposure for a hot, smoggy day.

The work also used resources of the Compute and Data Environment for Science at ORNL, a fully integrated infrastructure offering scalable computing, software support and high - performance cloud storage services and the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility, which is a DOE Office of Science User Facility.

It is part of the company's Personal Robotics Project, whose goal is to make a truly autonomous robotic assistant that can perform routine tasks at human speeds in cluttered environments like homes or offices.

I raised the matter with Hector Monro, the minister for agriculture and the environment at the Scottish Office.

Published December 18, 2017 issue in Nature Genetics, a team led by researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) have exploited a catalog of bacterial genomes to identify and characterize candidate genes that aid bacteria in adapting to plant environments, specifically genes involved in bacterial root colonization.

This year, the Leonid meteor shower should treat skywatchers to beween 10 and 15 meteors per hour, NASA meteor expert Bill Cook, head of the Meteoroid Environment Office at the agency's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, told Space.com.

However, Brad Tippens, program manager at the US Department of Energy's Office of Nuclear Physics, says while most of these collaborations are not hierarchical, they can create an environment that fosters mentoring of early - career researchers and accelerates their maturation as scientists.

As an energy and environment adviser at the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST), Jonathan Wentworth, 41, is one of six former researchers who advise the U.K. Parliament in Westminster, London, on science and technology issues.

Investigators: Karen Akerlof, AAAS Visiting Scholar, Research Assistant Professor, George Mason University and Adjunct Faculty, Johns Hopkins University; Maria Carmen Lemos, Professor and Associate Dean for Research at University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability; Emily Therese Cloyd, Project Director at AAAS Center for Public Engagement with Science and Technology; and Erin Heath, Associate Director at AAAS Office of Government Relations

Lu Xuedu, deputy director of the Office of Global Environment Affairs at the Chinese ministry of science, told SciDev.Net that setting quantitative emissions reduction targets was «hard and unrealistic».

Halley's has become famous because «it's the only short - period comet that a human can count on seeing in his lifetime,» says Bill Cooke, lead at NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office.

In the current fiscal environment there is also concern from some public health offices that dollars allocated to detecting biological threats through BioWatch may be competing with the ones needed to provide complementary information to help detect threats — such as picking up any uptick in certain symptoms at hospitals through robust health surveillance.

I brought the article to the attention of Hector Monro, the minister for agriculture and the environment at the Scottish Office.

To find out more about the origin and future of the Perseids, we spoke to Bill Cooke, the Meteoroid Environment Office lead at the NASA Marshall Spaceflight Center in Huntsville, Ala. [An edited transcript of the interview follows.]

«Evidence from Kipp and co-workers for substantial ongoing change in the chemical environment of the Arctic Ocean emphasizes the need for sustained study of these changes and of the processes involved,» said Bob Anderson, an Ewing - Lamont Research Professor at the Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University and the director of the U.S. GEOTRACES Program Office.

Officials at the Bureau of Land Management's Lander field office have taken interest in Central Wyoming College's research because it will help the bureau plan for an increasingly arid climate, said Kristin Yannone, the office's planning and environment coordinator.