Sentences with phrase «few workers spend»

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Another paid attention to which patients seemed to have few visitors or none at all, and would make sure to double back to spend some time with them... What these workers were doing, Wrzesniewski came to realize, was quietly creating the work that they wanted to do out of the work that they had been assigned — work they found meaningful and worthwhile.

Let me briefly mention a few steps that could be taken to increase the economy's potential over time — immigration policies that attract workers with scarce skills to the United States; education policies and job retraining programs that build and replenish human capital; spending on infrastructure to remove bottlenecks; tax simplification and the elimination of tax policies that distort investment and saving decisions; regulatory policies that are attentive to costs and benefits and that emphasize getting the incentives right.

A year after the bear market in crude began, oil companies have cut workers, are using fewer rigs and have less money to spend.

Minimal time being spent with offenders — some of whom are being spoken to on the phone every few weeks - staff shortages, unmanageable caseloads, high staff sickness levels and workers being recruited with no probation qualifications.

Georgiev, who had been working for a company on the other side of the country, had been released a few months earlier after having spent four years in prison, but the other medical workers, later dubbed the Tripoli Six, were waiting for death by firing squad.

And a fire at a pool storing spent fuel rods at dormant reactor No. 4 is posing additional hazards to the few workers remaining at the site.

Teachers are particularly vulnerable at a time when so few private sector workers have union benefits, and when there's so little political will for improving education by spending more on it.

After spending 2 months living in Penestanan, we got to know a few of the friendly local business owners and workers so would be greeted with a lovely Bali smile wherever we went.

Spend a few hours with long - time pineapple workers for a once in a lifetime authentic experience on a Maui Pineapple Tour.

I might seem a little cynical, but I wonder if a few hundred billion here and there might be spent on things such as teachers, nurses, doctors, police, emergency workers and so, without affecting society detrimentally.

Only 13 % of B2B companies with over 1,000 employees are increasing spending on marketing, while 26 % of B2B companies with fewer than 100 workers are doing so.

As reported in a 2014 study on the health impacts of such work on racialized, immigrant women in the Greater Toronto Area, «temporary and on - call agency work seemed to be the new norm in both the private and non-profit health and social services agencies... Working precariously meant not just fewer hours and lower wages, but included the quality of work, the differential treatment being an agency worker; and the «invisible» and «unpaid» time and energy spent in - between and in getting from one job site to another...»

There are also more economic reasons — minimum wage has increased over the past few decades so companies aren't hiring as frequently for positions normally filled by high schoolers, and a tough economy saw more grown workers taking jobs they usually wouldn't — but a lot of it can be attributed to students spending their time more wisely.

Instead of spending company resources training junior - level staff, only to lose them in a few years to another company, consider the strategies below to keep as many of your top workers as possible.

Fewer hours spent commuting, greater independence and flexibility means more productive workers.