Sentences with phrase «life for working people»

«Food banks, legal loan sharks, Mcjobs, and no hope for the young - this is the tragedy of life for working people in Britain today under the Tories.

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We see how we've changed the lives, careers, and families of the more than 5,000 people who work for us; and two is we're able to work with and create solutions for the world's most innovative companies,» Weir says.

«I was summoned to a working - man's cafe in London, and all around me, people were eating bacon and eggs and beans and chatting about the football scores, and I put these headphones on and I was transported into another world where Diana talked about her eating disorders, about desperate cries for help, about her loneliness, about her childhood, about her royal life, about Prince Charles.

I am a mosquito researcher who lives and works in Florida, and when I tell people what I do for a living, I get all sorts of questions.

Over half of the people surveyed (55.9 %) thought that putting in «an extra 10 hours per week for life» was worth a bump in pay, apparently not realizing that working 25 % more hours for a 10 % bump isn't exactly a good tradeoff.

Individualism works well for young people, who are often unattached and working on finding themselves — adolescence and young adulthood are inherently self - focused life stages.

For many people, having a reliable vehicle is a necessity to make it to work and keep up with life's errands.

Some people might share a workspace if they live in the same city — but for the most part, everyone works from different places.

While we often feel to swamped with work, or too tired for leisure reading, research from the University of Liverpool's Centre for Research into Reading, Literature and Society found that reading made people feel happier and more satisfied with with lives, overall.

I won't get into any religious issues or get preachy here, and I'm not even encouraging meditation, but every person on the planet who has to work for a living needs to follow this basic routine.

Some of us have it worse than others, and for some people it's a very serious problem that messes up their lives, work and relationships.

So on the days when it seems really too hard for me to keep going I think about all of the people whose lives have been changed by the work.

Patricia G. Greene, a professor of entrepreneurship at Babson College, points out that «retirement» may not mean the same thing to small business owners as it does to people who have spent their lives working for other people.

«I thought, I'm going to commit two to three years of my life to work for these people to learn everything that I possibly can.»

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Nearly one in eight of the world's workers believe they will never be able to afford to retire fully while millions of people are not financially prepared for life after work, according to international research by HSBC.

«There is no way that five people living in 6,000 square feet, miles from work, schools, and shopping, can be «environmentally friendly» or sustainable for humanity in the long run,» one reader wrote.

«I realized that I wasn't going to be able to have the kind of life people have in the States — a good house, a nice car, maybe a summer house — if I finished school and went to work for a company,» Fuks says.

We all go to the doctor to see how our body is functioning and we speak with retirement professionals to see what life after work will look like, so why not give your business that same kind of assessment for your most important asset — your people?

For example, Crain said, take a household in the highest - income group with multiple people working jobs, several children to support, no assets, and live in an area with a high cost of living.

And for many people in a family work environment, the main test is being able to work and live together.

Although the work will start off in Los Angeles, Chicago and New York, «eventually, people can live in Arkansas and do work for a nonprofit in Los Angeles,» said Briana DeCuir, a co-founder of Shared Havest Fund.

The plan, outlined in a document titled «A Vision for Change», aims to ensure all transgender people in Britain can live full authentic lives at home, at work and in public, free from discrimination or abuse.

I am incredibly proud to work directly with people like Thuan and Emil, both of whom were refugees who came here to build a better life for themselves.

«For people like Sir Alex, who are obsessed by a pursuit, there is no separation between life and work... It is much easier to endure all the setbacks, reversals and frustrations of management when you deeply enjoy your work.»

It is incredibly rewarding and motivating to work for an organization that strives to improve the lives of people with disabilities, even if one's own work does not have a direct impact.»

According to executives polled by EY, the top three drivers for young people would be salary (72 percent), opportunity to use the latest technology (43 percent), and a good work - life balance (38 percent).

Who do you think is more fulfilled in life: the person who works for herself or the person who works for other people?

Senators also spent a significant amount of time reading letters from constituents about the effects of the scandal on their own lives, which not only looks bad for Stumpf and Wells Fargo, but also allows the politicians an easy opportunity to prove that they are working for the people who elect them.

«Young people often focus on today's cash flow, ignoring they have the work of their life ahead of them,» says Eleanor Blayney consumer advocate for the CFP Board, a non-profit that qualifies investment professional to become certified financial planners.

«Food is great and cheap, work - life balance allows for me to actually be a normal person outside of the weekends.

As Dean Kamen sums it up, «I don't work on a project unless I believe that it will dramatically improve life for a bunch of people,» and «I do not want to waste any time.

With panning shots of the company's offices, featuring a game room, groups of people eating lunch together, and seemingly happy dogs sitting next to desks, the video includes interviews with employees discussing work - life balance (an engineer training for a marathon and dressed in running clothes mentions the freedom to go for a run during work), the challenges the company faces, and the collegial atmosphere.

«One - size - fits - all» solutions don't work when they are taken too literally, or when they become yet another reason to blame parents (or children), or because they don't allow for the diverse conditions of real people's lives.

«So for me, enabling people to work out without sacrifice is just really going to change how people live the rest of their lives.»

If a core aspect of your work, from the people, to your position, the product or the company's mission isn't aligned with your personal motivations, defining clear boundaries for work - life balance will likely be more important in your current job.

Bates says there's a solid incentive for addressing work - life issues, and it's directly related to the reason she and two partners started their firm 15 years ago: «It's a highly competitive market and we want to attract the best people in the business.

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A Treasury spokesman told the BBC: «We are taking action to support families with the costs of living by cutting taxes for millions of working people, doubling free childcare for nearly 400,000 working parents and introducing the National Living Wage - a significant pay rise for the lowest earners.&living by cutting taxes for millions of working people, doubling free childcare for nearly 400,000 working parents and introducing the National Living Wage - a significant pay rise for the lowest earners.&Living Wage - a significant pay rise for the lowest earners.»

Resumés are combed for real - world examples, like volunteer work or school projects that demonstrate a passion to help people in general and individuals in particular, as Baylis goes above and beyond to save every possible life.

The cost of living in New Jersey is among the country's most expensive, and much of the state consists of bedroom communities for people who work in New York or Philadelphia.

«What we've seen is that the economic climate has had a huge effect on people being willing to take vacations,» says Karen Sumberg, vice president and director of projects and communications at the Center for Work Life Policy.

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08:40 Price: And I was living in a fish bowl because there were always people working for me in my house and the UPS guy was in my house and then customers were in my house.

My schedule works for me because everyone in my life from my wife to the people who work with me knows what is most important to me and understands how I value time.

When the expectation from the top down is that people's personal or family lives have to be sacrificed for the job as evidenced by 50 - hour - plus workweeks, little or no vacation time, and 24/7 availability for work communication, you've reached the height of a toxic workplace.

But what a lot of people don't consider is that we have watched our own mothers and fathers work their entire lives, slaving away for the American dream, only to obtain the house with the picket fence and still be unhappy.

«Current treatments for depression work for many people but there is still a significant unmet need for a large number of patients living with this very challenging condition.»

Working longer can also help you delay claiming Social Security, boosting its value — especially for people whose late - life work replaces a zero - income year in the calculation.

The median retirement savings for people 56 to 61 is only $ 17,000, and fewer than half of working - age households are on track to save enough to maintain their pre-retirement standard of living.