Sentences with phrase «about time we at least»

Now that we pay even more for PS + than we used to, which was already higher than the US I think it's about time we at least saw parity in the service, if not some occasional favourable treatment for us.

Not exact matches

Ours may need some tweaking, but for now at least, my colleagues and I have found plenty of positive things to comment on: work we're proud of, jokes about office nicknames and even a little cheerfulness about the weather («Not wearing a sweater for the first time in... I can't even remember,» one colleague posted).

This one statistic alone should make all employers more interested in boosting bliss: Truly cheerful employees spend about 80 % of their time at work doing what they're there to do; the least content spend only 40 % of their time on job - related activities, according to a survey by workplace happiness consultant and author Jessica Pryce - Jones.

However, more companies are thinking about offering at least some paid time off, which is mandated in almost all other countries but not in the U.S.

«Canadians will see that the way in which we're going about it makes sense and that when the decision time comes that there will be a consensus, at least, on the process that got us to the decision,» Carr says.

Surveys show that at least half of working mothers and fathers say they're stressed out about work - life balance and how much time they spend with their families.

When the Pew Research Center surveyed thousands of Americans about their social media lives, they discovered that 44 % of Facebook users «like» content posted by their friends at least once a day, with 29 % doing so several times per day.

«About 80 percent of people sitting on the aisle moved at least once during their flights, compared with 62 percent in middle seats and 43 percent in window seats,» writes the New York Times, reporting the findings (and surprising no one who's been on a plane).

This discomfort with your new identity, at least in mild doses, isn't something to worry about, according to the New York Times, but it just might make you more prone to procrastination.

He's been complaining about the CRTC having a lack of AMP teeth for at least three years and he sang a similar chorus during his time at the Competition Bureau before that.

Last Thursday, moreover, both The Washington Post and The New York Times reported that Flynn had spoken with Russia's ambassador to the US, Sergey Kislyak, about the US economic sanctions on Russia before Trump was sworn in — including at least one call on the day President Barack Obama imposed new penalties on Russia for its election - related meddling.

At least for the time being, the service will be restricted to their own internet and TV customers, which amounts to about 4.5 million potential customers.

Some 3.2 million Americans work at least part time for an on - demand service; for about a fifth of them, it's the primary source of income.

«Hit predictor» is when Poleman's team gets a sample of listeners and has them listen to a new song over and over again, at least 20 times in its entirety, and then asks them about it — «could you see this being a hit?»

They're cautious, however, about recommending the new centres spend too much time on social enterprise, at least at first.

President Donald Trump's transition team — and, later, his nascent administration — was warned at least six times about potential conflicts of interest and compromising conversations between Michael Flynn, the incoming national security adviser, and Sergey Kislyak, Russia's ambassador to the US at the time.

Sullivan's questions include: «Think back to a time in the last 12 months when you have been at least slightly frustrated or anxious about your current role.

We talk about grit all the time here at Spartan Race but Dr. Angela Lee Duckworth is the woman who literally wrote the book about it (or at least she will be when Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance is published May 3 by Scribner).

In large corporations with strict planning routines requiring annual, semiannual and quarterly plans and plan updates, managers spend at least part of their time working on or thinking about a new plan or plan update.

Unlimited vacation policies are — at least in theory — extremely popular and a very hot topic among employers and employees... but how does a small business actually go about implementing a policy where employees can take as much time off as they like?

Spotify also disclosed for the first time that it would pay Alphabet Inc's cloud computing unit, Google Cloud Platform, at least 365 million euros, or about $ 447 million, over the course of three years to host Spotify's streaming services.

As of December 2016, a baseline Atlas 5 rocket launch was selling for about $ 109 million, though satellite operators can make up at least half that cost by getting more favorable insurance rates and other factors, including an on - time launch, ULA has said.

Investors have been complaining about the Spanish bank bailout's lack of effectiveness all week, and markets have — at least, for most of the time, been reacting negatively.

The complete article is chock full of other suggestions, including specifying what type of feedback you're after (so as to avoid your team telling you about things you don't have the time or power to fix) and most importantly, actually acting on at least some of what they tell you.

Disney CEO Bob Iger spent much of his time on the earnings call talking about ESPN, and about how he doesn't see much impact from cord cutting for at least the next five years or so — an estimate that at least some analysts think is absurdly optimistic.

Think about it: When was the last time you heard someone say, «You know, I pretty much suck at accurately identifying my and other people's emotions, at applying emotions to thinking and problem solving, at controlling my emotions and cheering up or calming down other people... really, I'm probably the least self - aware person you'll ever meet»?

In putting together a sidebar for that story about the most important FPS games in the history of the medium, I noticed a fascinating trend that seems to say something poignant about the times we're living in: brand has become a stronger selling feature than the artist, at least in games.

While the stock price is at this time currently down about 13 % from last year, Adobe appears to have generated at least one key win with its shift in model — new customers.

If you've spent any amount of time in an aircraft about to take off — gazing out the window at the tarmac, thinking about the cold beverage you'll have at altitude — you've probably spent at least a passing moment wondering how exactly manufacturers make sure the iron birds don't break.

The transistors on the processor inside your PC might be only about 100 atoms across, and improvements in manufacturing technology will keep them shrinking — at least, for the time being.

«Sometimes a person will have unrealistic goals, at least within some time frame, and I've found it's best to be quite direct about that, and maybe provide some alternatives,» she says.

And what about this time of year when the air is crisp (in many parts of America at least — here in Cyprus it's still in the 80s) and the leaves are changing?

For the time being, at least, investors and users have reason to feel positive about Ballmer's commitment to the company.

«The preferred solution, in the opinion of many of these countries, is for the United States to internalize the effects of its monetary policies — more specifically, not to exit or at least to do so at a time that is more convenient for others,» Deputy Bank of Canada Governor John Murray recently said in prepared remarks for a speech about the likely effects of the end of QE.

In accounting, Deloitte, which has about the same number of employees, has a staggering 86 percent working remotely at least 20 percent of the time.

The following statistic alone should make all employers more interested in boosting bliss: Truly cheerful employees spend about 80 % of their time at work doing what they're there to do (even happy people need an Instagram break); the least content spend only 40 % of their day on job - related activities, according to a survey by workplace happiness consultant and author Jessica Pryce - Jones.

You can at least be aware that the time to make calls that require you to listen to your gut isn't when you're feeling most anxious about the situation.

In 2002, before the sale of PayPal even went through, Musk started voraciously reading about rocket technology, and later that year, with $ 100 million, he started one of the most unthinkable and ill - advised ventures of all time: a rocket company called SpaceX, whose stated purpose was to revolutionize the cost of space travel in order to make humans a multi-planetary species by colonizing Mars with at least a million people over the next century.

About 3.7 million professionals work from home at least part - time, if not full - time.

Just in case you read about this in either Xinhua, Global Times or China Daily, please do not think that anything has actually happened in the iPad trademark dispute, or at least anything that can be verified.

His lawyers filed two motions in the United States District Court in California, where Daniels sued to get out of the NDA that bars her from speaking out about the alleged affair, saying that Daniels has violated the agreement at least 20 times and could be subject to damages of $ 20 million.

Furthermore, Cohen furiously denied its most specific claim about him — that he'd traveled to Prague in August 2016 to meet with Russian officials — and has shown his passport to reporters to back up his denials, at least for that time frame.

At about the same time, APRA acted to ensure that the interest rate «buffer» used in the serviceability assessments for all loans was at least 2 percentage points above the relevant benchmark rate (with an interest rate floor of at least 7 per centAt about the same time, APRA acted to ensure that the interest rate «buffer» used in the serviceability assessments for all loans was at least 2 percentage points above the relevant benchmark rate (with an interest rate floor of at least 7 per centat least 2 percentage points above the relevant benchmark rate (with an interest rate floor of at least 7 per centat least 7 per cent).

If I was Greenspan, I would at least cut the Fed Funds target by a quarter at about 10:15 A.M. on Monday, giving the markets just enough time to digest any initial sell orders and providing something of a base from which to rally.

The timing of directly reaching out to the customer is more difficult to achieve with email but this can at least be tackled by customer segmentation which we will talk about shortly.

But given the stock market's recent erratic behavior and concerns about the impact a trade war could have on the economy, you may at least want to set aside some time to see where your retirement plans stand and how well they might hold up if the prospects for the market and the economy turn south.

Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel investigating Russia's election interference, has at least four dozen questions on an exhaustive array of subjects he wants to ask President Trump to learn more about his ties to Russia and determine whether he obstructed the inquiry itself, according to a list of the questions obtained by The New York Times.

The sentiment seemed widespread on tech and media Twitter: there was a lack of specificity in terms of questions about privacy (this allowed Zuckerberg to turn nearly every question about the ownership of data to a discussion about user interface controls that limit where data is shown to other Facebook users), plenty of dodged questions (every time there was a question about the data Facebook generates about users beyond what they themselves enter into the system Zuckerberg needed to «check with his team»), and bad questions that presumed Facebook sells data, letting Zuckerberg run out the clock at least three times by explaining the basics of Facebook's business model (this is precisely why I have been so outspoken about the problem of perpetrating this falsehood: it lets Facebook off the hook).

And that's that economies — or at least the one's we're concerned about — have tended to grow their GDP over time, too.

Since just about everyone reading this post has at least thought about opening a restaurant at some time in their life I have created this hypothetical scenario: Two of your friends have asked you to invest in their restaurant.