Sentences with phrase «from home hours»

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Not the get home from work and slump in front of the tube for hours of mindless consumption kind of obsession (that's just numbing out).

Just across the border, two hours from Buffalo, NY, and four hours from Detroit, Toronto can make you feel like you never left home, yet enjoy a much better cost of living and plenty of talented workers available for hire.

Volkswagen made headlines in 2011 by announcing it would stop its servers from distributing email to employees after work hours in an effort to prevent employees from feeling that the lines between workplace and home had blurred.

The Youngs «were both just kind of blown away by what we had earned just in a couple hours a night, when I got home from my regular 9 to 5, just on the side,» he recalls.

Instead of spending hours debating the merits of eyeliner options in - store, Sephora customers can narrow their choices from home and streamline the shopping process.

If she says, «I'm just not an early - morning person,» you could allow her to catch up on emails from home and then hit the freeway after rush hour.»

Seeking entry into this field at mid-life meant competing with established professionals or those much younger than me, many holding a degree in journalism or another directly related course of study, an experience - rich resume to support their interest, and the freedom to work long hours in an office away from home.

off - schedule hours a week from our homes, but we're never really «off.»

Shaken, and far from home on a remote highway, with ears still ringing, he waited hours for a tow truck to take him to the nearest Toyota dealer.

He went from working over 12 hours each day at a Taiwanese high tech company to becoming a stay - at - home dad.

According to Chris Matcovich, vice president of data and communications at TiqIQ, the average ticket price for a Yankees» home game during the 2014 season increased to more than $ 217 from $ 206 within just a couple hours of the retirement news.

Some women shy away from jobs in fields that require long workweeks, knowing they won't have the time: a 10 percent cut in free time for women reduces their share in high - hour occupations by about 14 percent relative to men, according to the researcher's model.In total, that difference in time spent on at - home labor results in an 11 percentage point gender wage gap, their analysis estimates.

Provide some freedom and let them work irregular hours or even from home.

Douglas County officials posted an update Thursday evening saying the fire is extinguished but asking residents in the evacuation area to stay away from their homes for at least another two hours.

For example, you may want to require that employees start and stop at specified times or this could happen: An employee who ordinarily works an eight - hour day works at home from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. with eight 15 - minutes breaks.

Women, in particular, liked being able to select which hours they worked or even complete tasks from home.

North Carolina — second only to California in installed capacity — powered 371,000 homes with solar energy this past year, and it is expecting a drop in solar output from 2.5 GW to 0.2 GW for 1.5 hours around the time of the eclipse.

Afterwards, she gets dressed for the gym and travels from her Upper East Side home to the YMCA in Park Slope, Brooklyn to work out for roughly an hour.

The center in Maiden, N.C., produces 167 million kilowatt hours, the power equivalent of 17,600 homes for one year, from a 100 - acre solar farm and fuel cell installations provided by Silicon Valley startup Bloom Energy.

When her husband finally got a job, she became even more motivated, because she wanted him to be back at home instead of working long hours away from their kids.

JetBlue (JBLU) founder David Neeleman commutes 10 hours from his home in Connecticut to his new airline Azul's headquarters in Sao Paolo once a week, reports Quartz in a piece about extreme commuting.

Despite the trend towards increased workplace flexibility in the form of perks like unlimited PTO, working from home and staggered hours to cut down on commute time, more Millennials are job hopping or leaving behind the security of full - time employment to join the gig economy.

Define exactly what you need, whether that's a larger budget to get real results, an assistant, flexible hours, working from home a few days a week, time to go to the gym and clear your head in the afternoons, more realistic expectations, the ability to define strategic goals or otherwise, and explain how that will have a positive impact on your output.

Otherwise, with an entire weekend to get to our first destination, we probably would not have chosen North Carolina — a two - hour flight by regional jet from our home base in the New York City area.

On top of that, working half as many hours, he took home an additional $ 1,000 a month from the part - time pizza job.

You might never exercise when you come home from the office because part of your daily routine involves opening the mail on the couch, which leads to putting your feet up, which leads to watching two hours of television instead of putting on your sneakers and going for a run.

The majority of activity from your friends and family back home will fall on your off hours.

During the half - hour drive from his home in suburban Newton to the hospital, Apstein either dictates notes for his columns into an Olympus microcassette recorder or uses his car phone to call patients.

Bloom and Liang found study participants who worked from home also put in more hours and took fewer sick days, thanks to not having to commute as well as the ability to start earlier in the day.

The big city with a small town vibe is known for its music scene, and for being home to the South by Southwest (SXSW) conference and as well as the Whole Foods HQ, but where it really shines is in its culinary scene, which ranges from barbecue that people wait hours in line for to all kinds of tacos.

For example, front - facing positions typically can't work from home, but they might be able to adopt flexible or part - time hours.

Employers that don't embrace flexibility in hours and working from home will lose good workers to companies that do.

Because of caps and incentives in Obamacare, even with contributions from the employee, these workers would take home $ 33,908 a year, or almost the same as if they worked 40 hours.

Let people know it matters to have both.Consider allowing work from home scenario, flexible hours, and other accommodations.

An iPass Mobile Workforce Report, also cited by the Society for Human Resources Management, found that 12 percent of the 3,100 employees it surveyed worked 20 more hours per week when they worked from home.

Telecommuters work the same and often longer hours when they work from home, Rogers wrote on LinkedIn, noting that «they also have higher engagement scores, lower absentee rates, lower turnover rates, and the same or higher annual performance ratings, when compared to our nontelecommuting population.»

The city of just over 33,000 people is located near the shores of Lake Michigan in the western part of the state, about a half - hour drive from Michigan's second most - populated city, Grand Rapids, and roughly an hour from Kalamazoo, the home of Western Michigan University, which has an enrollment of nearly 23,000 students.

To figure out what can relieve our sense of time pressure, Norton conducted a series of experiments that gave some study subjects an unexpected block of free time, by sending them home 15 minutes early from an experiment they were told would take an hour for example.

They followed 474 employees, half of whom were allowed to work flexible hours, deciding when and where they worked — at the office, from home, or elsewhere — while still logging in the same number of work hours as those who maintained a rigid work schedule.

The San Diego - based Telework Research Network pointed to a Cisco study that found that telecommuters put in extra hours: Allowed to work from home, they give back 60 percent of the time they'd have spent travelling conducting business.

«I got home one night, my wife picked me up [from the airport], and my baby daughter didn't recognize my voice for an hour.

Many trace the tipping point for utility - scale solar to a 2014 announcement by Austin Energy that it would buy power from a new 150 megawatt solar plant — enough to light and cool 30,000 homes - for 5 cents a kilowatt hour.

A day before her 17th birthday this year, Alexis came home from school and told her mom she wanted to join the U.S. Army and she had an appointment with a military recruiter in an hour.

But, unlike similar policies such as telecommuting — which substituted a nine - to - five day at the office with a nine - to - five day working from home, or flextime, which lets employees control when they start their days but not how many hours they must work — ROWE was all about giving workers complete autonomy.

«In China, many people come from the western provinces and their goal is to work seven days a week 16 hours a day, because in five years they want to have a pile of money to go home with and start a business.»

Basically went from just an employee to being charge of 15 + people in a less than 8 months increasing my work hours from 45 to 70 + per week along with 1 - 2 hours of working at home catching up on paperwork each night.

With Peekaboo Beans, you get to work from home, set your own hours and earn money your way.

If you offer a work - from - home policy, your employees can work on their own time and deal with their work - life balance as they need to, meaning you still get your eight hours of work and your employees are happier.

Hopefully your company already has a flexible work plan that lets people work from home or shift hours occasionally.

Reposted from Brian's personal blog on November 20th, 2010 10:47 pm: So I've just returned home after a pretty exhausting 28 hours.