Sentences with phrase «equivalent of working»

She also mentioned that when people juggle their inbox and work at the same time, their IQ falls about 10 points, «the equivalent of working without a night of sleep or smoking reefer on the job,» thus, literally making you dumber.

Former Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick's bankruptcy lawyers asked the court to approve more than $ 2.6 million in fees and expenses for 7,200 billable hours of work over ten months — the equivalent of working 24 hours a day over the course 300 straight days.

Three months in South East Asia could cost you around # 2,000, which is the equivalent of working for five weeks fruit picking...

It is moralistic in that it encourages the psychological equivalent of works - righteousness approaches to salvation — that is, it encourages the attempt to pull oneself up by one's own rational bootstraps rather than opening oneself to the healing - growth resources in good relationships.

Not exact matches

The deal is part of Advanced Microgrid Solution's work with the local utility Southern California Edison to provide it with the equivalent of 50 megawatts of battery systems.

As a result, he says, the client is often willing to offer more in equity than the equivalent in cash «because the [designer's] motivation and the quality of the work could be better.»

Still, Mr. Schultz says he intends to remain a visible and active presence at the company — his office is connected to Mr. Johnson's — as he works to introduce the company's premium coffee brand with a small team inside that he described as the equivalent of a start - up.

Working for a few bucks an hour is fine if you like crocheting, but it hurts full - time sellers by creating the equivalent of a developing economy on the Internet.

Having a plan gave managers the equivalent of a dashboard to work with as my company navigated sudden change.

Take a moment to recognize a small, yet smart decision by a junior team member today, and you'll be doing the culture equivalent of genetically encoding them to work and lead by the actions you encourage.

The two - year study revealed that the employees who worked from home had a «massive, massive» (Bloom's words) increase in productivity — almost equivalent to an additional workday — primarily because of fewer distractions and fewer pointless conversations.

In another one of our working papers, which links our result to various probability puzzles and statistical biases, we found that the simplest version of our problem is nearly equivalent to the famous Monty Hall problem, which stumped the eminent mathematician Paul Erdős and many other smart people.

That loss, it says, is the equivalent of the entire populations of Cardiff and Birmingham not working at all for a whole year.

Here's how the different programs work in practice: Airlines like Southwest price their seats either in cash or in an equivalent number of points.

More famously, Twain lost the modern - day equivalent of millions on a publishing invention called the Paige compositor, which never really worked.

Instead, we're going to see the rise of people working multiple jobs at the same time, up to the equivalent of full - time hours.

So to earn the equivalent of what their male counterparts would have made in 2014, women would have had to work the full year and then some.

He was poor and needed the money ($ 50 in 1946 was the equivalent of about $ 500 today), and he earned $ 1,375 for his work on the New York traffic scene.

Right - to - work laws bar so - called «closed shops,» where workers are required to join a union and pay union dues or pay equivalent fees as a condition of employment.

So much care, in fact, that parents working full - time would need to find the equivalent of 40 around - the - clock days of volunteer childcare in order to be employed full - time.

Turning to policies that can help stabilize the economy during a downturn, countercyclical fiscal policy should be our equivalent of a first responder to recessions, working hand - in - hand with monetary policy.

«That the work of the Russian government is equivalent to the US government and you couldn't really distinguish between the two?»

You qualify for Social Security once you reach 40 retirement credits, which is roughly the equivalent of 10 years of work.

In 2018 dollars, the equivalent salary (adjusted for 2 % annual inflation) would be about $ 95,000 in the last year of work.

Running a trade surplus means that a country sells more to foreigners than it buys from them, and there seems to be an implicit belief that exports are what a hard working country produces, and imports are the equivalent of its consumption, so that a trade surplus means that the country earns more than it spends, and the larger the surplus, the more likely the ants in that country are especially productive, thrifty, morally upright, and perhaps fond of sensible clothing.

Giving the Conservatives ammunition to resist enhancing EI does not imply an automatic redirection of equivalent funding to a larger GST credit, Working Income Tax Benefit or other «better ways of distributing that money».

Moore worked at a Texas steel mill in the late 1970s, when there were plenty of steel jobs that paid the equivalent of $ 30 an hour.

They also improved their productivity, equivalent to about 2.6 hours of extra work per week, worth about $ 1,800 per year (based on average wages)-- while the intervention cost the employers an estimated $ 100 to $ 400 per treated employee.

Public Works and Government Services Canada has increased its spending on external «Other» professional services by 212 percent since 2006/07, equivalent to 18 percent compound annual growth — a total increase of $ 332 million per year.

Public Works and Government Services Canada has increased its spending on external «Business Services» by 150 percent since 2006/07, equivalent to 14 percent compound annual growth — a total increase of $ 188 million per year.

If you're divorced, you may be able to collect an amount equivalent to half of what your ex is eligible to receive, based on his or her work record.

The Congressional Budget Office recently said the healthcare reform law would cause some people to work less, reducing employment by the equivalent of 2 million full - time jobs over the next decade.

Germany's biggest industrial union and employers have reached a wage deal that gives workers the equivalent of 3.5 percent annual raises over 27 months and the chance to work a 28 - hour week for up to two years.

In COMEX gold futures which also experienced a record one - week amount of nearly 55,000 contracts being sold by so - called commercial traders, or the equivalent of 5.5 million ounces, that works out to 20 full days of world gold mine production (275,000 oz per day).

China's working - age population aged 15 - 64 is set to decline from 2016 with numbers shrinking by 11 million in 2015 - 2020 — equivalent to the population of Greece.

The equivalent interest rate benchmark for the Australian dollar is BBSW, and the Council of Financial Regulators (CFR) is working closely with industry to ensure that it remains a robust financial benchmark.

Before cofounding Magallanes he worked at Santander AM, Aviva Gestión and Sabadell Gestión where he has delivered superior returns in Spanish and European Equities until Septembre of +437 % and +98 % respectively, equivalent to + 11.5 % and + 15 % annual compound, for the last 15 and 5 years, considerably outperforming their equity benchmarks.

Experts suggest targeting a retirement income equivalent to 70 % -80 % of working income to sustain a lifestyle similar to that of an individual's working years.

He said the Facebook and Cambridge Analytica story illustrates how important it is for brands to work with social platforms to build trust with their audience, noting that the equivalent of Serbia's GDP has been wiped off the social network's value following the revelations.

We work with a number of companies that get started with this approach and don't even have a full - time equivalent employee dedicated to building it.

This means they pay the equivalent of about ELEVEN median income households (2 people working, $ 80k total) in North Carolina.

This seems more efficient than working to reach many individuals in order to create an equivalent amount of change.

If you are facing difficulties in the understanding of the working of the leverages in this trading or if you like taking smaller risks, then you can still buy contracts that are equivalent to the value that is present in your bankroll.

Highlights include clay model equivalents of firka paintings, depictions of Indian costumes, trades and professions, finely - wrought silver and copperware, votive bronzes, fossils and minerals, delicate ivories, and models of temples made from pith.

For those who haven't had the time to read the legaled - up language of every single privacy policy we encounter (which, considering Carnegie Mellon researchers estimated it would take the average user the equivalent of 76 work days per year to do, is most of us), and even for people like me who do it for a living and still find disclosure gaps, the Facebook — Cambridge Analytica scandal managed to shed a bit of light on the otherwise obscure relationships between some tech companies and advertisers.

Since then, he continued, I have «worked to find a clarity of prose that might serve as an equivalent to the clear light of those Aegean islands.»

The 2016 Global Gender Gap Report was released earlier this week and revealed that, among various other things, women get paid less than men, but work the equivalent of 39 days more per year than men do.

For fellow Christians to implicate one of the beacons for Christian thought in the 21st century as a bigoted, senseless, reactionary institution, is equivalent to denying the ultimate conclusions and results of Wheaton's work in the 21st century up until this point, which as a graduate living in a secular world, has been mostly of incredible benefit not only to our world, but the kingdom beyond.

Ninety percent of the food - and wood - gathering work in African families is done by women, who spend 40 billion hours per year — the equivalent of the entire French workforce's annual labor — collecting water.

I'm not as sure about this, but 3,400 years ago I think the shekel was equivalent to a week's salary (i.e. 6 days of work).