Sentences with phrase «like human company»

So long as I'm not left alone for long periods, as I do like human company.

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Current rules do not let people fly drones beyond the line of sight of human operators and over people's heads in public places, which limits companies like Amazon (amzn) and Google (goog) from using drones to deliver goods, among other business uses, beyond testing.

By treating freelancers like human beings, companies can ensure they'll never be at a loss for top talent, even on the most challenging projects.

Companies like JobBliss, which recently launched its service by invitation, account for just 3 % of the $ 270 - billion recruitment market today, but stand to grow as businesses outsource tasks like human resources, marketing, coding and design.

* The RBL Group and firms like it provide advice on human resources, leadership, and organization and so might be more helpful in scaling your company culture as you grow.

Like other nations, however, Canada has steadfastly resisted pressure to directly regulate companies» behaviour abroad, even when they're operating in jurisdictions with abysmal human rights records.

Some companies, like Choozle and Purely Elizabeth, are creating pet - friendly (usually dog - friendly) offices, where employees» pets are welcome to accompany their humans to work.

«It does seem like a potential clash of worlds,» says Laurie Bassi, the CEO of McBassi & Company, a consulting firm that specializes in the human capital analytics.

That might seem like a huge stroke of luck for any company, but Johansson signed on after controversially severing her ties as an ambassador with human rights and aid organization Oxfam, which has long opposed Israeli settlement in the West Bank.

ut the company — whose machines are designed to supplement rather than supplant human security guards, and take care of monotonous tasks like scanning license plates in a parking lot — also has a closer view than most of the emerging and unpredictable world of robot - people interactions.

Companies like Apple (aapl) and Google (goog) have built mobile phone powered digital assistants like Siri and Google's Assistant that use A.I. techniques like deep learning and natural language processing to recognize the human voice and answer people's questions on the fly.

The «microbiome,» or the collection of organisms that reside within the human body (especially the gut), has become a big new interest area for a number of major pharma companies like Merck and smaller biotechs alike.

We are a company built on human interaction with our end user... a small amount of really good customers that we truly treat like family rather than trying to be the business that serves everyone.»

«Nearly one in five job ads for China's 2018 national civil service called for «men only» or «men preferred,» while major companies like Alibaba have published recruitment ads promising applicants «beautiful girls» as co-workers,» Sophie Richardson, China director at Human Rights Watch, said.

Artificial intelligence is generally accepted as the way forward, helping companies like Facebook index and archive all of that data in a way that a human would find useful.

Companies like TaskRabbit, which now has 35 employees, don't have the resources to bring on a full - time human resources staffer, so they need to get creative when they want to grow.

Dozens of companies and research labs around the world are developing bots that are even more like humans.

Monday's accident may also call into question new regulations from states like California and Arizona that are letting auto and tech companies test self - driving vehicles without human backup drivers that can intervene if the vehicle makes a mistake.

«On some level, the agency [responsible for the Lyon promotion] thought that their campaign would be acceptable» for a company like Uber, says Susan Heathfield, a management consultant and About.com's human resources expert.

While in August Trump told the online publication Circa that he would like to see «a carve - out of sorts for our small - business owners,» that may be too late for entrepreneurs who were already well down the road raising salaries or switching workers to hourly non-exempt, says Jacqueline Breslin, director of human capital services at TriNet, an HR outsourcing company.

A lot of human nature will drive us to do the small things that make us look busy and feel like we've somehow contributing to the company.

What You Can Do: Write job descriptions that sound like an actual human being wrote them and that showcase the values and culture of your company.

While today's consumers debate the merits of wearable technology like smart watches and Google Glass, tech companies are already looking beyond that to the day when the tech disappears on — or even in — the human body.

It's not uncommon, for example, for companies to state that they will have significant «back office savings» from functions like legal, accounting, and human resources.

Perhaps most importantly, great company cultures are like great societies — they can expand human potential by empowering people to do exceptional things.

Sandberg told CNBC that A.I. can catch «99 percent» of the «bad actors» in some content areas, but internet watchdogs are less sure, and after a week that was the worst for Facebook shares since 2012 — and saw tens of billions in Facebook market capitalization erased daily — it seems like the «responsibility» of companies merits more spending on human talent.

Amazon's Mechanical Turk is a platform where companies can hire users to perform «Human Intelligence Tasks» — intuitive operations like labeling images, or weeding out duplicate data, that, so far, we are still better at than computers — for fractions of a penny apiece.

The software also stores information like employee learning history and integrates career development management in the company's human resources management application.

More common and larger - scale cyber-attacks (from Sony pictures to Spanish renewable energy companies) are yet another example of this unprecedented «communication» flow; just as growth of the dark web has allowed for more effective connections in illegal activities — drug trade, human trafficking, and the like.

Philipp Schindler, Google's chief business officer, said in an interview this week that like Facebook, his company believed the internet was so vast that machine learning had to work hand - in - hand with human reviewers to improve vetting.

The periodic replacement of companies means the Dow operates like an actively managed mutual fund, in which humans pick companies that are expected to do well in the future.

The NASTAR center is (to date) the only private training facility to meet FAA safety regulations for both orbital and suborbital human spaceflight, which has made them a de facto partner for commercial space companies like Virgin Galacticand Astronauts 4 Hire.

As Mike Volpe wrote, «Getting your company listed in a human reviewed directory is sort of like getting into a good college.

Twitter today is taking another step to build up its machine learning muscle, and also potentially to improve how it delivers photos and videos across its apps: the company is acquiring Magic Pony Technology, a company based out of London that has developed techniques of using neural networks (systems that essentially are designed to think like human brains) and machine learning to provide expanded data for images — used, for example, to enhance a picture or video taken on a mobile phone; or to help develop graphics for virtual reality or augmented reality applications.

As for me, I can't believe in an human - like being that designed and jump - started the universe 13.8 billion years ago and set aside a planet for His special favorite creations, so He'd have someone to keep Him company and sing songs praising Him, then gave Bronze Age hermits a book of His orders to mankind that includes «thou shalt not round thy head nor cut thy beard» on penalty of eternal suffering... just CA N'T, any more than I can force myself to believe the world rests on the back of giant turtle.

You can check out your favorite stores on BetterWorldShopper.org (they have an app, too, if you want to check it on the go) where they grade companies A-F (just like in school) based upon 5 issues: human rights, environment, animal protection, community involvement and social justice.

He believes that the popularly «conservative» refusal to relate global warming to human activity is like tobacco company executives» denial of a link between smoking and lung cancer.

I will continue to point out business practices by Nestlé and other companies that undermine parents, put babies at risk, violate human rights and hurt the environment because staying silent or ignoring issues like this further enables horrible inhumane behaviour.

The logic goes that if companies are putting the proper processes in place across their businesses and supply chains and responding to minor infringements as they happen, then shocking human tragedies like Rana Plaza should be avoided.

Novartis has the European customs that allow them to treat their employees like human beings, unlike American based companies such as Roche and Pfizer.

Science, engineering, health and human rights: Conversations with industry leaders The Coalition would like to publish a series of interviews with leaders in science, engineering industry in which they will be asked questions about the role of their company and their industry in respecting, protecting, and fulfilling human rights.

- Only two groups in the company are taught not to give out information like this to callers: receptionists / operators and the Human Resources team.

It is part of the company's Personal Robotics Project, whose goal is to make a truly autonomous robotic assistant that can perform routine tasks at human speeds in cluttered environments like homes or offices.

Multinational companies are facing tough issues like climate change, poverty and human rights.

«This study shows the importance for a company to communicate in a human - like way for establishing the best relationships with consumers.

«The program is supported by a broad partnership — a global healthcare company GlaxoSmithKline, the world's largest multidisciplinary science society, community - based organizations like libraries and Boys & Girls Clubs, and the K - 12 educators who deliver the curriculum,» said Betty Calinger, AAAS Education and Human Resources project director.

The best you're going to do there is Luna, a human - size «robot» that will soon be widely available from a company called RoboDynamics in Santa Monica, California, for $ 3,000 — incredibly cheap for a humanoid, but incredibly expensive for a device that can't do much more than try not to bump into furniture and senior citizens as it desultorily wheels itself around your home, toting a tray of drinks you've carefully placed on its precarious, pipe - like «arms.»

The commercial crew program — subsidies for companies like SpaceX to develop privately owned, human - rated rockets — would get $ 805 million, while the agency would spend $ 2.051 billion on its own rocket, the Space Launch System, a lumbering, and delayed, heavy - lift vehicle that will not see its first launch until the end of 2018.

«It seems like the only way we're going to do exciting things in human spaceflight is if commercial companies handle the low - Earth orbit stuff and NASA handles the stuff beyond low - Earth orbit.»

He says HGS was getting «diminishing returns» from its investment in TIGR since Venter had steered his outfit into sequencing organisms of little medical importance, and into human genome sequencing, also of limited value for a company like HGS that is interested in genes as drug targets (not untranslated DNA that makes up most of the genome).