Sentences with phrase «by people at work»

You're likely surrounded by people at work, on your commute, or at home who disagree with you and your beliefs.

Not exact matches

«An applicant then moves step - by - step through our interview process, talking with another person they'd work with at every stage of interviewing.»

Earnest looked at loan applications from tens of thousands of people who got at least some of their income by working through Airbnb, Uber, Lyft, Etsy, Postmates, Doordash, and others.

Not so at RFRK, which has increased both its employee retention (in the high - turnover food - service industry, no less) and its rep as an employer of choice (the firm recently got 350 applications for an admin position) by making its people feel something very powerful: that their work matters.

«The total volume of the room, when empty, divided by the number of people normally working in it should be at least 11 cubic metres.

Eileen Carey, CEO of Glassbreakers, put it this way, «Say no at work when you are assigned a task that does not fall under your job description and could be easily accomplished by the person who is asking it.

The bulk of people work at properties downtown and on the Strip, including those operated by MGM Resorts International and Caesars Entertainment.

Their future is highly influenced by the people they are meeting on a daily basis, including their friends at college, professors and first - time work associates.

I speak of bosses who express visible and public anger, yelling across hallways and conference rooms at the drop of a hat, or marching to other departments to «tell someone off» without realizing the fishbowl they work in (yes, people watch, take notes, and many are affected by it).

«Companies led by older management tend to be very controlling, but when I look at people in the 20s or 30s, they're totally capable of working on their own and being productive,» said Kevin Wheeler, whose Future of Talent Institute researches and consults on human resources for Silicon Valley businesses.

We stress, we have conflict with others, we experience disappointments, and our buttons are often pushed by annoying people at work.

By making it easier for your team to work together, you'll increase the odds that your people will arrive at innovative solutions.

Perhaps the point of contact you despise leaves and is replaced by someone who's more pleasant to work with, or, better yet, the person you do enjoy working with gets a better gig at a competitor and sways his or her new company to hire your firm.

«I felt so isolated and wasn't meeting people in meaningful ways through the typical networking events and by working at coffee shops.»

Focusing on one task at a time won't work if your phone is consistently interrupting you with personal texts or the latest ballgame scores, so productive people give themselves the gift of momentum by eliminating distractions from immediate surroundings.

If you're intrigued by the idea of working on applications that millions of people could potentially use, then you'll want to take a look at the growing group of software engineers who are researching, designing, evaluating, integrating and maintaining software applications, technical environments, operating systems (you can thank these guys for all those Apple iOS updates), embedded software, information warehouses and telecommunications software in both the private and public sectors.

The unemployment rate in Western Australia was unchanged at 6.1 per cent in September, however it disguised a fall in employment as the number of people working fell by over 9,000 during the month.

«Walmart's vision of the future is centered around people — by serving the communities people live in and the people who work at Walmart,» Walmart chief information officer Clay Johnson said in a statement.

It wouldn't be a Salesforce conference without some pageantry by people in plush, cartoony costumes as if they worked at Disneyland.

Compared to peer companies certified by Great Place to Work, older team members at the winning companies were more likely to say promotions are handled fairly and managers involve people in decisions that affect their jobs.

The Mid Scotland and Fife MSP was backed in the short term by Unite's Scottish secretary Pat Rafferty who said: «Under Alex Rowley's interim leadership we are confident that the voices of Scotland's working people will be heard loud and clear at Holyrood.»

A good manager knows how to empathize with his / her people by celebrating their successes, understanding the tough times they are going through whether at work or home, and always challenging them to reach their full potential, no matter what happens.

Apple has excelled at giving people what DuBravac calls the «360 solution,» or devices designed from the ground up to work exceptionally well with the content also sold by the company.

Federal Reserve data show that average family income at households headed by self - employed people declined 5.4 percent in real terms between 1989 and 2010, while average family income at households headed by people working for others rose 20.4 percent in inflation - adjusted terms over the same period.

Smith started Vice as a print magazine with Suroosh Alvi and Gavin McInnes in Montreal more than two decades ago; with Smith at the helm as CEO, it's now a multi-platform content mill with a reported audience of between 250 million and 300 million people a month, many of them members of Generation Y. Smith made his money by convincing an older generation that Vice knows millennials better than they could ever hope to, and that pitch has worked: Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox paid US$ 70 million for a 5 % stake of Vice in 2013, and Rogers Communications (which owns Canadian Business) inked a $ 100 million partnership.

While working for Indrik, before it was bought by Kaspersky, Stoyanov shared information about Russian criminal hacking gangs with American companies, including at least three firms that had contracts to provide services to U.S. spy agencies, people who had worked for each of those three companies said.

Nineteen people were slain during the first full week of June — incidents accompanied by the discovery a mass grave with at least 18 bodies, reportedly the work of Damaso Lopez Nuñez, the father of Damaso Lopez Serrano.

GALLOWAY: By the way, people kind of laughed at that but it's one thing that fascinates me in your work that there is this extraordinary sensitivity.

A 2013 analysis of the Senate's immigration reform bill by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimates its passage would have resulted in nine million more people entering the U.S. work force in the next 20 years, with new immigrants participating at a higher rate, on average, than other U.S. residents.

A 12 - person committee then narrows down the list of about 2,000, by looking at the nominators» letters, expert evaluations, and samples of the nominees» work.

«If we want to broaden people's knowledge by letting them work in different places, most firms have a policy of setting competitive wages in the places they come to,» said Mikael Norman, CFO at Sweden's Nobia, Europe's biggest kitchen maker.

Not only that, the arrival of the baby - boom generation at retirement age over the next two decades will see the ratio of seniors to working - age people (aged 20 to 64) go from just over 1:5 in 2006 to 1:2 by 2056.

People stick their money under the mattress, they don't put it to work,» says Leo Piccioli, who used to work at Officenet, a stationery and supplies start - up bought in 2004 by Staples, the US office supply chain store, and is now that company's Argentina country manager.

As a result, a person with a fixed mindset is likely to discount the roles played by effort, determination, or even working just to be in the right place at the right time, plays in success.

Netflix's baby - benefit policy covers all of the roughly 2,000 people working at its Internet video and DVD - by - mail services, according to the Los Gatos, California, company.

That's according to a tidbit of wisdom in the business book Dinosaur Brains: Dealing With All Those Impossible People at Work unearthed by Farnam Street, a consistently interesting blog dedicated to hunting down just these sorts of fascinating ideas in out - of - the - way places.

On the other hand, more than 300 people gave the device a shot at the company's booth, and by almost all accounts, it was a big hit and worked well for virtually everyone who tried it.

An online petition accusing Starbucks Corp. of «extreme» cutbacks in work hours at its U.S. cafes, hurting both employee morale and customer service, has been signed by more than 9,000 people.

If you can get by at an acceptable level of comfort without the stresses of work, won't more people be tempted to forgo hard work and content themselves with living off the government instead?

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.

This is usual sparked by a simple business disagreement — two people with opposing views on how to proceed with the work at hand.

«The federal government should do everything within its authority to empower individuals by providing opportunities for work, including by investing in federal programs that are effective at moving people into the workforce and out of poverty,» the order read, according to CNN.

In the years before World War II, British economist John Maynard Keynes boldly predicted that by the time his grandchildren were grown, the average person would spend just 15 hours a week at work, thanks to technological innovations.

Paul Murphy, an Irish member of the European parliament, decried the secrecy of the negotiations, saying they had «been driven by Canadian and European multinationals and agrobusiness that want market access and access to vital public services so they can profit at the expense of working - class people.»

We believe we are transforming the way people work by connecting talent with opportunity at massive scale.

«Dozens of people at Facebook Ireland are working full time on this effort,» it said, noting too that the data protection team at its European HQ (in Dublin, Ireland) would be growing by 250 % in 2017.

Fitneff ™ is dedicated to creating active solutions for productive lives, making it easier for busy people to make healthy choices by integrating movement into their daily lives — at home, at work, at school, and on the go.

You can see how he makes it easier for people to have fun at work, just by example.

Over the past year, the number of people with jobs has increased by more than 2 1/2 per cent, a positive outcome given that the working - age population is increasing at around 1 1/2 per cent a year.

b) The initial FISA application notes Steele was working for a named U.S. person, but does not name Fusion GPS and principal Glenn Simpson, who was paid by a U.S. law firm (Perkins Coie) representing the DNC (even though it was known by DOJ at the time that political actors were involved with the Steele dossier).