Sentences with phrase «in cubicles in»

The biggest crime any dreamer can commit is wasting time, whether it be in a cubicle in corporate America, or in relationship that's long dead.

It is also a disease in environmental law (EPA, CAA, CERCLA, NRDA etc, etc.) One of my professors in law school joked that in a cubicle in one of the office buildings in Washington DC is a worker whose entire job is coming up with acronyms for the federal government.

Not exact matches

Limiting employees to working only in an open office floor plan or only in a private, cubicle - style floor plan can squash productivity and lead to less overall happiness.

In other words, cubicles - or other similar enclosures - don't always work.

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.

For many, such office designs are a welcome change from the drab cubicle farms pioneered in the»70s and still found in many office buildings today.

When I worked in an office, my boss was in the cubicle across from me.

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.

Certainly this does not entail bringing in couches for each cubicle; however, you can make some simple updates that will make employee workspaces more enticing.

Rather than cubicles, modular desks made by Artopex, which is based in Toronto, save the company space, which was important, as the company plans to eventually staff up to more than 60 employees.

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

Hint for those who work in a cubicle farm: This is not at your desk.

It is so, so easy to sit in a cubicle or an office or even somewhere you enjoy being and say, «This place isn't giving me enough.

Every moment you're stressing about whether you're better than the girl in the next cubicle over is a moment you're not focused on thinking creatively, serving your customers, or producing delightful work.

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.

You can work 9 to 5 in a suit and tie in a stuffy cubicle, skip your lunch break and stay heads - down, and still get less done than someone who comes in at 9:30, takes several breaks, dresses casually, and communicates with his / her coworkers often.

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 when employees aren't huddled in the boardroom, open concept offices and low - walled cubicles encourage co-workers to drop by and interrupt.

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).

Example: The Credit Suisse guy who got drunk and trashed his colleague's cubicle over the weekend, perhaps on Friday after everyone in the office had left to go on vacation with their managing director.

Programmers sit for hours in their lonely cubicles.

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.

Humans didn't evolve over millennia sitting in cubicles, typing away under fluorescent lights.

Remember the cubicle farms that emerged in the 1990s?

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.

Cubicles are shrinking, and even for executives the recession has cemented Don Draper - sized offices firmly in the past.

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

He was speaking in Ex Machina's Athens office in Greek lender Eurobank's startup hub EGG, where cubicle walls are covered in business plans and Post-it notes.

It noted that more than 40 million North Americans work in cubicles, and that most aren't satisfied by that arrangement — «a malaise perhaps best represented in our popular culture by Dilbert and his colleagues.»

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.

To the white nationalist in the next cubicle?

Especially if you work in a cubicle, it will be difficult to notify others you are unavailable.

There's no pride in going to an office building and sitting in a cubicle.

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.

It's easy to walk into a room and only chat with the colleague who sits in the cubicle next to you.

Everyone wants to increase their productivity — from the employee sitting in the cubicle to her boss.

Some people can work just as efficiently from their dining table as they can in a library cubicle.

You can't help but be excited, because likely the only other time you would see a snake is at the zoo, where it's locked up in a tiny glass cubicle.

So this year, don't hole up in your cubicle.

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.

Very few people want to work in a cubicle farm, and in many industries open floor plans encourage spontaneous brainstorming sessions as well as camaraderie.