Sentences with phrase «more days off»

The trouble comes when those few days off lead to a few more days off and even a few more days after that.

However, the trust found that pupils took more days off because some parents had children at different schools.

I can also feel when my body needs a longer break then I take a few more days off.

«Children with uncontrolled asthma can face difficulties over several years, for example it can affect their ability to play and take part in sport, they may have more days off school, or experience disturbed sleep.

After speaking with some of these employees, and hearing from dispatchers in other departments that work 12 - hour shifts with more days off in between, I believe Erie County should consider a schedule change for our call takers.

After seven years of painful austerity, our workers deserve a break — and under a Labour government, they will have the opportunity of four more days off a year.

For employers, there is a cost due to formula feeding moms taking more days off to care for sick children, resulting in decreased productivity.

• In Australia, Hosking et al. (2010) found an association between fathers» leave - taking and being more likely to look after children on their own at weekends (Hoskings et al, 2010); and Huerta et al (2013) reported that Australian fathers who had taken 10 or more days off work around childbirth were more likely to be involved in childcare - related activities when children were 2 to 3 years old.

More days off is a good thing for players.

A few collective bargaining agreement items go into effect for 2018: There are four more days off for players now (22 total), and there won't be a Sunday Night Baseball game played prior to All - Star week.

Still, though, if he's managed a bit better, given a few more days off, or used exclusively as as a designated hitter so he can rest his legs more effectively throughout the season, then he might have one more year of greatness left in him.

Hey, he knows this defense pretty well, why not give him more days off practice during the week every week of the season.

Our educational system is already in the toilet and know we want to give our kids more days off.

Why does everyone now have to take two more days off on muslim holidays?

Yep they can use a few more days off.

Sure, let's take away a few more days off, when Americans already have less than half the average time off per year than any other First World country, and on average suffer far more from overwork and stress - related health issues.

The fact that older workers take more days off is intuitive.

I hope Josh Hader gets one more day off, his last five breaks have only been one or two days.

Big thanks to my boss for giving me one more day off today to get my life together in NYC before going back to the office.

This is the best school in Arizona my son went to Crown Charter School and Heritage charter school both of them was not able to teach my son how to read or math Heritage even told me that my son would never be able to read I enroll him in Dreaming summit my husband was not very happy because to him charter schools were better now he thanks me that I put him in this great school my son now reads very good and he is doing very good he is happier and he can wait to go back before he used to ask me for one more day off school.

Not exact matches

Just 44 % of women, meanwhile, took all their allotted days off despite being more likely than men — 58 % to 49 % — to say vacation time is «extremely» important to them.

«Overall Americans are using more vacation days,» says Katie Denis, senior director of Project Time Off who authored the report.

When South by Southwest kicks off March 10, more than 400,000 people will descend on Austin for 10 days.

That's a harder mission for brands, but Keeley says Getty Images seemed to pull it off during International Women's Day 2017, when it announced that it was launching a female - focused sports photography internship with the goal of adding more diversity to the field and contributing «to a more positive portrayal of sportswomen in the media.»

Employees can use this same service to book days off, find out about their company's bonuses, obtain information regarding an IT problem and much more.

Even if their employers offered unlimited vacation days, most people wouldn't take any more time off than they do now.

Although a few days off work might seem like a great idea, it tends to be more hassle than it's worth!

If that's not your cup of tea (I couldn't pull it off beyond a few days myself), know this: To become more productive, first master the principle of managing yourself wisely.

For example, the companies whose CEOs took brief vacations fared better than those with CEOs who took more than 10 days off.

«It really helps take my mind off my day - to - day problems - the problems that get in the way of making progress on the more important challenges.»

In such a scenario, employees at all levels could decide whether they felt like taking a few hours off each day, or taking an entire month (or more) off depending on what's happening in their lives.

As we get bigger we've added a few more perks: car washes, massages, and on Fridays, we give people half a day off in the beach season, but they get paid for it.

I vowed that on the last day of my experiment, I would be more intentional and designate my morning hours for a specific task — pure brainstorming (instead of checking off items that were only slightly more meaningful than «I'm available Friday afternoon for the call.»)

The real clincher comes when we see a world of disgruntled people who go off to work, day in and day out, to a job they hate, never even knowing they were called to be more.

Becoming an entrepreneur has its own security costs too, including a more secure paycheck and the ability to take a day off.

Also, if you require an employee to work more than 10 hours a day, you can write off his or her dinner.

Within two days of making the offer public we had sold five spots and brought in $ 15,000, and by the time the class started we had sold out all 20 spots, bringing in roughly $ 58,000 (after some additional discounts we offered), and we had more people wanting to get into the course who we had to push off for the next one.

«Recent events have brought home for me that people are more important than work, and that I need to take some time off of the day - to - day to grieve my mother, whom I buried on Friday, to reflect, to work on myself, and to focus on building out a world - class leadership team,» Kalanick wrote in the email, obtained first by Recode.

But on the day of his telephone interview, he is more concerned that a leak in a pipe is knocking the group off its aggressive schedule than he is about the wider ramifications of solving the world's energy problems.

Others spend big bucks to pull off elaborate multi-day affairs, such as the planned three - day New York celebration for 83 - year old billionaire investor George Soros starting Friday that will be attended by more than 500 guests, including hedge fund titans and prominent political leaders.

I work my butt off — more than 12 hours a day usually.

Hughes may have built his empire on his knack for taking time off, but as he tells Nancy Won, behind the laid - back veneer lies a hardcore workaholic who's more likely to measure his downtime in hours than days.

And it gets even more confusing when retailers such as Wal - Mart Stores kick - off the shopping eventat 10 p.m. on Thanksgiving day, with deals rolling out over the course of several hours.

In 2015, Microsoft came up with a prototype of a portable mini data center that it submerged 30 feet off the California coast for more than 100 days.

People often start off their day by completing easy tasks to get themselves rolling and leave their more difficult work for later.

A day before the North American International Auto Show kicked off in Detroit, Krafcik provided more than just a first look at its self - driving Chrysler Pacifica minivan.

U.S. stocks came off the day's lows after U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer said he did not desire to change China's economic system but wanted to limit the damage it causes to the United States and encourage more foreign competition.

So his advice to turn off your smartphone for a minimum of 30 minutes a day — preferably more — may seem counterintuitive.

In fact, I've found that slacking off makes me more productive because I slack strategically — meaning that I take breaks at designated times, for regular intervals, in ways that sharpen my focus when I sit back down to work,» she argues, asserting that «strategic slacking has enabled me to dramatically increase both the quality of my work and the amount I get done in a given day.»

Of course there are whole books dedicated to this topic, but for now I'll look at just two aspects of how to get more done with less time... and how to «turn it off» at the end of the day: