Sentences with phrase «half hour»

Most full - time employees work about 8.6 hours, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

MVMT's 40 look is extremely clean, with dark marks for the hours and light ticks announcing the minutes.

It has three settings (Low, Med, and High) and features a three - hour shut - off, which means it is better for staying warm on the couch rather than providing heat all through the night.

Come back from a hour - long meeting or week - long vacation, and the bot will be able to summarize what you've missed and highlight the most important messages.

For example, you could ask that each member of your team look up information on 10 local companies, or spend one hour each week, yourself, finding new information.

«Paris Food Tour: Taste of Montmartre» snags the third spot on TripAdvisor's ranking and includes a three - hour, small - group guided tour with six stops.

If you're stuck in a bad self - employment situation, fire yourself and start building something that doesn't require you to trade dollars for your hours

They turn work hours into a litany of mundane tasks to be completed — the antithesis of engagement.

Sitting in a chair for most of their waking hours often translates into carrying around more weight than is good for a person, physiologically or esthetically speaking.

The fact that Spotify put this together in 14 hours, at night (Scott tweeted at 9 pm initially) is amazing.

It's worth the effort, as less paper allows Kypuros to «work less, smarter and hopefully increase my dollar per hour value.»

But Congress has pushed back against the federal wage increase, with legislation to increase the minimum wage to $ 10.10 an hour stalling in the Senate last April.

I ended up coming to work an hour later, and during my drive over the next few weeks, listened to the entirety of Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary (13 hours) which filled my car time with purpose.

Sure, if you run a retail or service business, there's no way to chuck employee schedules, but if your team is doing office - based work, you might consider tossing your set hours and letting your people come and go as they please.

In addition, pay is «competitive,» «raises are based on hours worked,» and workers receive «twice a year bonuses after you hit top pay.»

The average round - trip commute time is about an hour, but it's not that uncommon for people to commute from the far reaches of the Central Valley into the city.

The president left the event to attend a meeting on school safety for more than a half - hour.

A great study done in 2010 indicated that drinking fat - free milk immediately after whole - body resistance training and again one hour after the workout allowed participants to increase fat loss, gain greater muscle and strength, and strengthen bones by reducing bone cell turnover.

Okay — seriously, try not to click this link RIGHT HERE before you finish reading the last little bit of this article because you'll soon find that a couple hours have gone by and you've laughed yourself into raging six - pack abs.

It was his means of staying awake and focused during 100 - hour work weeks during the process of building and launching his companies, he told Inc. in 2007.

Now I come in to my office, close my door, and I get into a work zone for six wonderfully uninterrupted hours.

Nesi says that he works more than 10 hours a day.

«Moderate intensity aerobic exercise improves mood immediately and those improvements can last up to 12 hours,» says Dr. Jeremy Sibold.

How I was handling what I thought was a business made it impossible to get ahead unless I had more hours to put in, which simply wasn't possible.

If I'm lucky, I get two hours with my kids, so my wife and I decided we would both put our phones down from when we walk in the door until the kids are asleep.

In Japan, a Tokyo governor recently ordered municipal employees to finish their work by 8:00 p.m., after a 25 - year - old woman employed by Dentsu, an advertising company, jumped to her death after logging more than 105 overtime hours in one month.

Netflix shares, which hit an all - time high during regular trading hours of $ 333.98 last month before selling off in the recent stock market decline, jumped as much as 8 % in after hours trading on Monday.

Revenue of $ 13.83 billion beat forecasts of $ 13.72 billion but it disappointed on revenue outlook and its shares fell 2.2 per cent in after - hours trading.

«We sat for hours in disbelief until we eliminated any possibility that this result was wrong,» said Gruss, whose mind kept racing even after powering down his computer, so he barely caught a wink of sleep.

play music for a few hours — guitar and drums.

Cal / OSHA defines a serious injury or illness as one in which an employee is hospitalized for more than 24 hours or when a part of the body is lost or permanently disfigured.

Apple claims the iPhone 7 will give you two additional hours of usage compared to previous models.

When you're up against a deadline or facing a tough challenge, do the people you work with know instinctively that they'll find you in the thick of the fight — pitching in, working long hours, and doing whatever is necessary to succeed?

Monday through Friday, 2,000 hours per year?

«When they talk about raising the minimum wage or providing health care for employees over 30 hours, you're really encouraging automation.»

The team at Tesla no doubt spent many hours discussing whether to stop enforcing its copyrights and probably pored over industry data: who was buying electric cars, how much they were spending and how fast demand was changing.

Most job sites don't have a very good «remote work» filter, which usually results in hours of sifting through jobs.

Times editorial board member Elizabeth Williamson writes that wealthier tech employees seem to support Clinton; meanwhile, those living in «a less glamorous Silicon Valley, inhabited by brainy young people whose long hours power the big companies and whose college debt is so heavy that some of them can't even qualify for a credit card» are «feeling the Bern.»

Senate Republicans came out of 20 hours of debate with a stunning failure in their efforts to overhaul the US healthcare system — and Sen. John McCain of Arizona cast a decisive vote.

But few if any engineer their hours with Smith's attention to detail.

The rare joint hearing is slated to last several hours, and is among the most high profile in recent months.

But we've only got 24 hours each day, and entrepreneurs — and anyone who is driven and success - minded — aren't exactly reeling with free time.

As Dr. Gunther Klaus, the famed management speaker tells us, the second most valuable thing anyone can do with their time is to invest in marketing efforts that will generate more future billable hours related to their most valuable skill.

Environmental group WWF Scotland said Friday that analysis of data provided by WeatherEnergy showed the country's wind turbines sent 86,467 megawatt hours of electricity to the National Grid on Monday.

I promise myself a little, and then I've squandered five hours that could've brought me closer to my goals as a writer.

Snapchat's stratospheric engagement stats (to the tune of 100 million users spending a half hour on the platform per day) make it compelling for any brand.

Baehr's mentor, Walter Hailey, whose insurance company Lone Star Life Insurance went on to become a Kmart insurance company, used to take an hour - long walk at 5 a.m. every morning with a group of close friends to talk about ideas, successes and failures.

My continuous use would eat it down to around 10 % within eight or nine hours.

But as investors digested the two factors that had little to do with Alphabet's (googl) core business results, the after hours stock gain evaporated.

In the case of a senior businessperson, the value of their time in their best skill might be far higher than $ 500 an hour.