Sentences with phrase «be a permanent trend»

«I think that's a permanent trend we'll see for the future,» he says.

I don't know if it's a permanent trend, but there is an increasing chorus of caveats from businesses that outsource overseas.

For the third year in a row, more than 90 % of firms believe «more price competition» is a permanent trend.

Finally, firms were asked if using technology to replace human resources will be a permanent trend going forward.

For the fourth year in a row, more than 90 % of firms believe «more price competition» is a permanent trend.

According to a legal industry survey released this year, 56.1 percent of law firm leaders said their firms are using contract lawyers with 67.8 percent expecting an increase in contract lawyers to be a permanent trend.

The study found 57 % of larger firms «are making strategic changes in pricing approach» and 93 % believe improving «practice management efficiency is a permanent trend.»

I'm also going to skip Poor's discussion of the incredible perception / behavior gap exposed by the recent Altman Weil «Law Firms in Transition» report (the one where 93 % of law firm leaders say that a focus on practice efficiency is a permanent trend yet only 37 % say they are changing their strategic approach to efficiency).

According to a recent Altman Weil report, 94 % of legal professionals surveyed felt that improved practice efficiency would be a permanent trend moving forward.

I'm curious, though, how 83 % percent of respondents believe this is a permanent trend, and yet at least a third of respondents overall consider these service providers not to be a threat!

It was also interesting to note that, while in 2011, 70 % of respondents thought that competition from non-traditional services providers would be a permanent trend, in 2015 that number is 83 %.

The big question is whether proxy contests are going to be a permanent trend in the Canadian economy, he says.

Not exact matches

While corporations have been slow to embrace flexibility for permanent employees so far, many experts expect that this trend will pick up speed.

While a weak sterling is being keenly watched as the driver of higher prices within the country, Ben Brettell from Hargreaves Lansdown says its effect should fall out of the numbers reasonably soon and we should watch for more permanent trends.

According to the British recruiting firm Sterling, the consumer goods industry is:» having to contend with the battle of the interim employee; a growing trend of permanent employees deciding to «go interim».»

Because of the company's high exposure to the more volatile permanent placement market, its earnings are especially sensitive to increased hiring trends.

No market condition is permanent, and even the late - 1990's advance included periods where favorable trend - following measures were not joined by hostile syndromes of overbought, overbullish conditions.

He argued those trends, coupled with growing corporate social responsibility, means faith - based organisations are more ready and needed than ever to bring permanent change to areas of crisis.

Anyone that needs someone to scratch a permanent cartoon on their body to try and draw attention to themselves is obviously a person with very low self esteem that follows trends.

Whether or not the trend is irreversible, as Schoenherr argues, it has begun to transform the relationship between priests, women religious, the new pastoral administrators, permanent deacons and lay ministers.

As these and other food trends move from fads to permanent menu fixtures, the impact on equipment and supplies will continue to be huge.

This, unintentional, reform could be all the more permanent if voting trends continue.

Thus, «[if], as seems to be the case, those on permanent contracts are more satisfied... and are more productive..., the traditional and increasing trend towards less secure contracts needs to be examined as it is of benefit neither to science nor to society,» the report says.

Adults show these trends as well, suggesting that these attitudes are a product of the times and not necessarily a permanent generational shift.»

Feather earrings like these are reminiscent of the feather hair extension trend, but less permanent.

The new rules, which also require teachers by 1994 to hold a master's degree to receive permanent certification, reflect what experts say is a trend toward insisting that teachers be better educated in the arts and sciences.

Both trends seemed to top out after 2007, so higher standards do not lead to a permanent change in achievement gains per grade level (as would be expected to happen with a permanent change in the quality of teaching).

The change in trend is most likely permanent, so PCs are firmly on the way out and tablets are the latest in thing.

No market condition is permanent, and even the late - 1990's advance included periods where favorable trend - following measures were not joined by hostile syndromes of overbought, overbullish conditions.

«We believe that these trends are permanent.»

There's always a chance that it's permanent this time, but if historical trends are any indicator then the «normal» amount of space will return within a few weeks.

, are all - female group shows an indication of a permanent commitment to gender equality in the art world or is it just another doomed - to - disappear trend?

Moreover, even if methane leakage were to remain modest in some areas, long - term climate models suggest that warming trends have less to do with the rate of methane leakage and more to do with other variables, such as the thermal efficiency of future coal plants and whether the switch to gas is permanent or a bridge to zero - carbon energy.

The only reasonable conclusion to be drawn from the above is that CO2, volcanic outbreaks and El Nino events have little or no effect on the background temperature trends in stratosphere and troposphere because of the ability of the Earth system to change the height of the tropopause and the size and location of the permanent climate zones to change the speed of energy flow through the Earth system and thereby negate any such effects.

Apart from general novelty outside the community, the fad is driven by mass media, whereas a trend is considered to be a behavior that evolves into a relatively permanent change.

In contrast, while many African countries experience a similar trend in rapid urban coastal growth, the level of economic development is generally lower and consequently the capacity to adapt is smaller Coastal industries, their supporting infrastructure including transport (ports, roads, rail and airports), power and water supply, storm water and sewerage are highly sensitive to a range of extreme weather and climate events including temporary and permanent flooding arising from extreme precipitation, high winds, storm surges and sea level rise.

Whereas turbines with gearboxes were once standard, the trend is toward direct drive turbines with permanent magnet technology, which are relatively lighter and more compact.

Thinking the pre-1998 warming phase was of permanent nature, not transient, the consensus climate «experts,» and their sophisticated climate models, predicted this steady warming trend would just drone on year after year, as far as the mind could speculate.

Moreover, long - term climate models suggest that warming trends have less to do with the rate of methane leakage and more to do with other variables, such as the thermal efficiency of future coal plants and whether the switch to gas is permanent or a bridge to zero - carbon energy.

However, it remains to be seen whether these trends will be permanent.

In most of east Antarctica where there is a near permanent inversion layer and very little waste heat we do no see a rising temperature trend.

There are even ways to modify disposable gadgets into permanent ones, effectively reversing the trend of disposability.

Even with a decrease emphasis on Pricing, four of the top seven «permanent» trends — including number one — are all pricing - related:

While 62 per cent of all law firm leaders believed that an erosion of demand was a «permanent trend,» law firms have generally not felt «enough economic pain» to warrant significant changes.

This issue of Management Solutions examines three trends that I believe are permanent and essential for any law firm that hopes to thrive in the future: restoring clients» trust, building competencies and improving project management.

Elsewhere, permanent hiring has slowed at the larger firms, with some firms undergoing redundancy consultations, apart from commercial litigation roles within employment law which are bucking the trend.

That is why we work so hard to train our agents and make sure that, not only are they up to date on the latest underwriting trends, they are also experts on many of the new «no medical exam» life insurance options and permanent life insurance options.

In terms of hiring trends, it's worth knowing that about a third of employers across Canada are planning to increase their permanent staff in the next year, but this trend differs from province to province.

Formerly the domain of the unemployed and job searchers passing the time until a permanent job can be found, temp jobs are now a valuable tool for companies looking to keep pace with the latest trends and technologies in a dynamic market — and for employees looking to capitalize on new demand.

There is an increasing trend in companied who are doing more temporary hiring to try out potential candidates for permanent jobs.