Sentences with phrase «hour work day for»

Each day of trial is a ten hour work day for most counsel.

Next time, we'll look at the idea of the four - hour work DAY for employees: a precursor to the four - hour work WEEK.

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«Brainjolt was built on the work I did for five years every day between the hours of 4:30 and 7:00 a.m..

For $ 50, you can get a round trip from the city, but most of the vans make only one trip a day, which means you need to stay for the full eight - hour visit — impossible for many people's work schedulFor $ 50, you can get a round trip from the city, but most of the vans make only one trip a day, which means you need to stay for the full eight - hour visit — impossible for many people's work schedulfor the full eight - hour visit — impossible for many people's work schedulfor many people's work schedules.

You can select a specific day of the month for «personal project» work, an hour or two every week, or simply grant an extra few days of vacation time for employees to use for personal work.

Or, work with individual employees to set schedules that work for them — maybe they work four 10 - hour days or start at different times on Mondays and Wednesdays etc..

«The days of working 60 - hour weeks for 30 years at the same company are long gone,» she says.

If you use a smartphone, the numbers are bleaker still — you're tethered to work for 13.5 hours a day, with another five hours spent emailing on weekends, according to a 2012 survey from the Center for Creative Leadership.

The idea is to work hard for eight hours each day and then go home and be with friends and family.

Since conscientious individuals are hard - working and efficient, they're able to remove household tasks and responsibilities from their partners» plates, freeing up more time for their spouse to recover from a hard day at work, or to put in more hours at the office.

This can be a real pain for high growth startups that tend to work 12 or even 14 hours a day.

If you have all of those things, you can work when it's feasible for you, whether that's in the middle of the day during rush hour, or in the wee hours of the night on a weekend.

In a coworking space, for example, it's easy to join in on topic - specific discussions, head to the gym to work out at any time of the day, grab coffee at all hours, change up your work surrounding, take important calls in sound - blocking rooms and even catch some Z's in a nap closet.

Nick and Jill moved into a cottage in the redwood forest near Pescadero, where Nick set about working 16 - hour days at the computer and the sewing machine, testing new fabrics for the next - generation product, designing marketing materials, writing patent applications, and starting to build up a network of retailers.

A friend bragged to me the other day that she had worked for 18 hours a day, non-stop.

Experiment with what works best for you by ending your day 15 minutes to a half hour sooner, until you get to your ideal bedtime.

I have always said that the most expensive hour you will pay for during any given work day is a non-sales related hour.

It's a gruelling profession: most operators are on call 24 hours a day, and often work in isolated locations for long stretches.

«I'm lucky that my husband has a flexible schedule — one we've shifted to accommodate his love for the early morning hours and my preference to stay in bed... Even if I'm not putting my work at the center of this time, starting out with quiet time always pays dividends later in the day.»

When you think in terms of a 40 - plus - hour workweek in addition to commute time, getting ready for work each day, etc., you suddenly have a wealth of available time during retirement.

«Lots of people set high goals, and, if things don't work out, they may be disappointed for a few hours or a day, but they move on,» Antony says.

Most operators are on call 24 hours a day, and often work in remote locations for long stretches of time.

Your family won't be pleased if you treat the weekends as just another work day, plugging away at your laptop for 10 or 12 hours.

For much of the year, the Castillos work 16 - hour days hauling trash from D.C. to landfills in central Virginia; her mother minds the kids in the afternoon.

While sleeping on an air mattress in the office, dining on cans of Kroger soup, and working 18 hours a day, he spent a year and a half incubating his idea for dairy - free protein bars.

«So for example, your duty day could actually be 12 hours, but you only get paid for six hours of work,» one flight attendant said.

Rather than trying to work as many hours a day on as little sleep as possible, I always aim for a minimum of seven hours of sleep.

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.

As an example, if you work for 10 hours a day, break that time up into smaller chunks and designate those chunks for specific tasks or groups of tasks.

1867: Workers who were «exhausted by 12 to 14 hours a day of work, six days a week,» call for the Illinois Legislature to limit workdays to eight hours, according to the Chicago Historical Society.

I could only work as a therapist for so many hours each day.

A 2016 study by the RAND Corporation found that employees who slept less than six hours per day were 2.7 percent less productive — either while at work or due to absenteeism — than peers who slumbered for seven to nine hours per day.

And so for me, it's being super conscious if I've been working 18 hours a day for three weeks.

The preparation for her role as «Wonder Woman» got her into boxing and mixed martial arts; she was working out six hours per day doing fighting choreography, horseback riding, cardio interval training, and strength training.

It's not quite like the «one hit wonder» app's that strike it rich overnight, I've built and worked at mine every day for 10 - 12 hours for almost a year now.

You'd think the need for so much practice would run counter to the idea that four hours of intellectual work a day maxes out our brains.

«We have so many casualties proliferating of women and men collapsing from burnout, being distracted, depleted and unfulfilled,» says Huffington, who is herself one of those casualties: She collapsed from exhaustion and broke her cheekbone as a result of the fall — an accident that resulted from working regular 18 - hour days for the preceding two years while she was building HuffPo.

That's 1 - 3 days working a few hours per day, or 1 - 3 weeks working just a few hours per week - stretching it over a longer period is often a better plan for additional objectivity and less burnout.

The Huffington Post founder had collapsed of exhaustion and broken her cheekbone as a result of the fall — a collapse that resulted from working regular 18 - hour days for the preceding two years while she was building the site, now one of the most widely - read in the U.S.

I found that early morning hours until lunchtime work really well for myself, starting my day with a bunch of tasks at hand to help me keep that focus for several hours.

But if you're constantly trying to power through substantive knowledge work for eight hours or more a day, then it's pretty much guaranteed that you're wasting a whole lot of time.

In it, he boils down the impressively persuasive case for not trying to wring more than four hours of creative work out of your brain each day.

By shifting to a six - hour work day, the need for such breaks can potentially be obviated, which would be more efficient and enhance productivity during work hours.

So, what can you do to cut down on the amount you work and reclaim more hours in the day for yourself?

You might not need special clothes or long hours («Undertake a commitment to try to sit three times a week for five to 10 minutes to begin with, working up to 20 every day,» Salzberg suggests), but you do need appropriate expectations and a good guide.

If I can get into the flow for three or four hours, then my work is done; the latter half of the day can be spent reading and researching.

«We were inside a mine for six weeks — six days every week, six weeks, 14 hours a day, in a very harsh environment with very bad air and just really hard working conditions for everyone, men and women.

While working 10 - hour days at Google, for instance, Marissa Mayer said that she took «a week - long vacation every four months.»

They are go - getters who want to start the day before their peers and competitors, who want to work long hours and have enough time for their personal lives too.

If you felt over-worked in 2014, commit yourself to carving out at least one day per week that's work - free, and a certain number of hours per day for sleep (it's crucial!)