Sentences with phrase «in a cubicle of»

Only five years ago, I was sitting in a cubicle of a large corporation without a clear plan of how to pursue my greatest passion.

I worked for a University in Canada, teleworked for a management - consulting firm while gallivanting around Southeast Asia, and finally found myself sitting in that cubicle of one of the world's largest companies in their European headquarters.

One source notes that the last straw for the studio was when Microsoft boss Phil Spencer visited the building with a briefcase full of Horizon screenshots that he had printed out as «critical design inspiration», and personally hung one in the cubicle of every developer.

Not exact matches

Today the network planning group of 70 analysts oversees this process from cubicles on the 11th floor of Union Pacific's office tower in Omaha.

He has argued in the past that younger employees are more stimulated by a communal work environment than by the classic, more rigid structure of buildings divided into offices and cubicles, and that major corporations have to adjust in order to keep attracting new workers.

On this day, Aeryon's office on the outskirts of Waterloo, Ont., is a quiet place where about two dozen people toil in cubicles separated by glass walls scrawled with engineering formulas.

For example, cubicles in rows are a thing of the past.

Roughly 80 % of startup owners have voluntarily left the cubicle and are pouring their energies into their own businesses, a much higher figure than during the jobless recoveries of the 1990s and 2000s, writes economist Benjamin Tal in a recent CIBC report.

Your colleagues schedule meetings, your boss checks in on the status of your projects when he walks by your desk or cubicle, and you take breaks to get coffee or lunch with your co-workers where you can discuss projects and goals.

The open plan supposedly cuts down on the prison - like environment of the cubicle, suggesting a collaborative environment in which everyone can see their fellow workers and feel like they're all part of the same effort.

And, of course, there isn't a cubicle in sight.

Before single - handedly bootstrapping AppSumo five years ago from the basement of an apartment in San Francisco's trippy Haight - Ashbury district, the 33 - year - old entrepreneur was a self - described «cubicle monkey» at Intel, employee number 30 at Facebook (he was fired) and employee number four at Mint (he quit).

After a tour of the Alutiiq offices — a warren of cubicles distinguished principally by the state - of - the - art videoconference system in the conference room and the Kodiak art that lines the corridors — I was led to a modest corner office.

«The whole reason for this company is to protect children in schools,» says the founder of Amulet Protective Technologies, which makes ballistic material that can be put into walls, doors, cubicle dividers, and office furniture to create bullet - stopping barriers in public spaces.

To him, this was a small price to pay for escaping the monotony of pecking away at a keyboard in a lifeless cubicle for eight hours a day, five days a week.

When Wattpad launched in 2006 as an online — and now mobile — community for readers and writers to share free books, CEO Allen Lau and his team were working out of a drab cubicle farm in Toronto's north end, with bankers and accountants for neighbours.

According to research, she notes, 30 % to 50 % of cubicles or offices in traditional spaces are empty at any given time.

For many consumers, it was a prime example of what it's like to deal with a call centre, reinforcing the stereotype of a sales or customer - service version of Henry Ford's assembly line: low - skilled cubicle cattle housed in giant Orwellian workrooms, with a script or a supervisor, turning the simplest request into a maddening ordeal.

In 2005, the government's National Research Council of Canada published a paper on how to make the cubicle a better workspace.

This simple motivational tip can keep your employees productive and excited to work for an employer that understands that everyone needs a break once in a while from the confines of their cubicle when the sun is shining.

Instead of «living life», we have to stare at screens, not experiencing something great, but wading through our software, clicking away in cubicles, pumping ourselves with caffeine, trying to stay awake until the end of our work day.

Balance: Janet Pogue, a principal in Gensler's Washington, D.C., office, where she co-leads the firm's workplace practice is (unsurprisingly) not a fan of the cubicle model.

For one thing, both careers are subject to the envy of friends in «traditional» corporate jobs, who are tied to their cubicles and employee ID cards.

The platform provides a birds - eye view of your team's workload and upcoming deadlines that makes it easy to keep folks accountable, whether they're in the cubicle next door or halfway across the country.

Another common tendency in workplace design is the impulse to shove as many people into an open office as possible, given all the open space that a lack of cubicles creates.

Sharing a drink with your cubicle buddy isn't quite as popular in the US, with 21 % of workers going for a drink with their colleagues.

Some people who think they want to be entrepreneurs are just unhappy in their current roles, says Pamela Slim, the Mesa, Ariz. - based author of Escape from Cubicle Nation (Penguin, 2010).

Thus the scene in Spin Master's Toronto office: dozens of engineers, industrial designers and self - described «super crafty» kids now grown into 20 - and 30 - something adults emerge from their cubicles to play out their childhood fantasies.

Anyway, if you work in one of the few organizations that haven't yet been bitten by this egregiously awful management fad, here are 16 solid arguments why private offices, working from home, and even cubicles are better for business than these glorified hotel lobbies.

The opportunity to get outside and run around if you had some energy to work off, knowing you could just shower and switch into some other clothes helped alleviate a lot of the fidgety energy I felt being pent up in a cubicle.

The actual work of boosting healthcare quality and reining in costs gets done in medical offices, not corporate cubicles.

The lack of space in cubicles and open office plan layouts is the primary reason for workers» frustration.

On the other side of the coin, don't let fear keep you in your cubicle when you've already amassed a nest egg large enough to support three good retirements.

They have not worked in a cubicle environment where they are focusing on the number of dials as opposed to the number of quality conversations.

She'd landed the job shortly after graduating from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2010, when the company consisted of four employees in a 10 - by -10-foot cubicle.

For some people, the prospect of spending their lives in a cubicle or behind a desk is a recipe for disaster — or at least serious ennui.

Lyndon and I sit down in a plain conference room on the second floor near his cubicle, and soon his assistant brings us each a black coffee and a green smoothie concoction he calls «The Lyndon,» which is a blend of kale, celery, and other vegetables.

Common Desk is a community of rebels that understand hard work doesn't have to happen in a cubicle and that connections are only worthwhile if they are genuine.

We're happy to report that Asterisk L., the subject of this week's FlexJobs success story, made the great escape from working in a cubicle all day to the freedom that comes with remote work.

-- Pamela Slim, author of Escape from Cubicle Nation: From Corporate Prisoner to Thriving Entrepreneur «Guillebeau has been in the trenches for years, and in The $ 100 Startup he guides you step - by - step through how he and dozens of others have turned their passions into profits.

All those things are worthwhile and good goals, but looking around my church at the twentysomethings who are making a lot of big life decisions, rarely do I see an example of a young millennial who has gone the traditional route of a four - year college degree to find themselves in a cubicle on the 11th floor — or at least who are happy being there.

What's funny is most of these comments are probably from people at work in their cubicles or offices

Those 10 years were laced with so many failures: quitting many times over, re-writing the edits of my re-write, working back in a cubicle, working back at the dream, trying to live in a retirement home to film a documentary, relationship debacles, a fire that almost burnt down my house and every other twist and turn of «God, where are you in this?»

For years, I felt frustrated and bitter that all my prayers of «Here I am Lord, send me» seemed to fall on deaf ears as I wasted away in cubicle life.

Sitting in his cramped cubicle in the Johns Hopkins University Medical Center, he says with quiet passion, «There is a great deal of missionary work that can be done right here in this country.

Instead, my life consisted of months on the road making sales presentations and lonely nights in motel rooms, only to come home to my shoulder - high, rainy - day - gray cubicle walls.

- goes a long way to explaining why the Pope's «opinion» is just one more voice added to the cacophony of Oprah, Al Gore, Howard Stern, and the woman in the next cubicle at the office.

I wonder how many of you could print this cartoon off and post it to your company's bulletin board, or the church's, or in your office, or on your cubicle wall, or wherever?

Maybe the church needs a gifted cartoonist to illuminate the aesthetic plight of congregational workers who are increasingly staring at computer monitors in their corporate - style cubicles.

The faculty in many seminaries sit in rows of little cubicles, one indistinguishable from another.