Sentences with phrase «more hours and days»

But is more education — more hours and days, more years and degrees — the cure for what ails us?

I'm not so easily convinced that unions nationwide will jump aboard a plan that involves huge turnover in staffing and significantly more hours and days per year.

Not exact matches

Each day I had set out to work harder than the last and to complete more and more hours of work.

Office workers now receive an average of more than 100 emails per day and spend 6.3 hours checking both their work and personal messages.

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Where does the average small business owner's time go, and how much would the average small business owner pay to add just one more hour in a day?

Since conscientious individuals are hard - working and efficient, they're able to remove household tasks and responsibilities from their partners» plates, freeing up more time for their spouse to recover from a hard day at work, or to put in more hours at the office.

Most of us aspire to conquer more and more work in less and less time, but since none of us can cram more hours into the day (despite our best efforts), increasing our productivity is the best we can do.

But while the idea of paying almost of a fifth of the telecommuting workforce to veg is enough to infuriate the calmest of managers, workplace expert and author Kevin Burns suggests keeping that percentage in perspective and applauding the other 75 % of employees who consistently put in more than four hours of work in a day.

Harvard's Czeisler recommends developing corporate policies around sleep, with scheduled work limited to no more than 12 hours a day, and at least 11 consecutive hours of rest in every 24 - hour period.

With too many tasks, too many hats, and too few hours in the day, hack your days with these four tricks to gaining more control.

Most businesses have become more flexible on hours, and 9 - to - 5 work days are an archaic concept to many entrepreneurs.

With new deals popping up every day — or in some cases every hour — now is the time to spend a little extra and get a lot more.

You can filter your search by dates, guests, and types (immersions which occur over multiple days, or experiences which last two or more hours) in categories that include classes and workshops, concerts, arts, food and drink, nature, sports, history, music, entertainment, health and wellness, nightlife, and social impact.

They work crazy hours, they take a lot of risks, they have to put their name and reputation on the line every day - and much more.

These depots are managed by third - party shipping giants like DHL, and are located strategically: they can get a part to a waiting customer within a few hours, so the airline with the disabled aircraft doesn't have to idle for a day or more as the part flies across the Atlantic.

According to the study of 715 parents, every hour of touchscreen use results in 15.6 minutes less of sleep, or 26.4 minutes less total per night and 10.8 minutes more during the day, on average.

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.»)

While eight hours of sleep each day is within the range of the recommended time for teenagers, adults and seniors, it's often true that people would benefit from more hours of sleep.

Thinking a few hours - even days — ahead will make your future self less stressed and way more productive when you don't have to waste time finding, fixing and doing things in the moment you need them.

Eight to 10 hours a day is reasonable, and you won't get much more accomplished by working past that.

An Edison Research study on the audio habits of Americans found that podcast listeners are actually «super listeners,» consuming more than one hour and 45 minutes of audio per day than the average American, and they spend more than 25 percent of their total audio time listening to podcasts.

Start spending at least one hour a day working this way, and you'll likely start to notice that hour becoming more and more productive.

I'm excited about getting to work every day and wish there were more hours I could spend at the office.

His citations go back as far as Plato («You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation») and as recently as «Stranger Things» teen star Millie Bobby Brown («I was bored one day, so my dad took me to this acting school.

Some campaigns experience immediate and wild success — like the one for OUYA, a gaming console, that raised more than $ 2 million on its first day on Kickstarter — while others develop over time, reaching their goal only in the last few hours.

Either way, when I got several days behind on my goal of doing 100,000 pushups this year (more on that here) I wondered how it would feel, physically and emotionally, to keep grinding out a ton of pushups, hour after hour.

Stocks, meanwhile, start to more closely resemble mutual funds, with very little if any price movement during market hours and instead «a final pricing at the end of the day,» Costa said.

By shifting to a six - hour work day, the need for such breaks can potentially be obviated, which would be more efficient and enhance productivity during work hours.

But a recent Gallup study found the opposite: Remote employees work more hours throughout the day and they're slightly more engaged than their office counterparts.

So, what can you do to cut down on the amount you work and reclaim more hours in the day for yourself?

«Be more flexible and try four 10 - hour days to give employees a three - day weekend.

Define exactly what you need, whether that's a larger budget to get real results, an assistant, flexible hours, working from home a few days a week, time to go to the gym and clear your head in the afternoons, more realistic expectations, the ability to define strategic goals or otherwise, and explain how that will have a positive impact on your output.

Yet as long as we indulge a fatalism that says we can not know the day or the hour when hurricanes will come, so we should limit our efforts simply to what we can do on that day and during that hour, we leave ourselves open to more injury and pain.

Three in 10 American workers spend more than an hour on team messaging each day, with just 14 % in the UK and 10 % in Australia doing the same.

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.

Elon Musk has as many hours in the day as the rest of us do, and right now it sounds like his car company needs him to spend more of those hours focused on making sure it achieves its goal of revolutionizing the automotive industry.

Whereas online grocers such as Grocery Gateway in Toronto and Fresh Direct in New York have traditionally promised next day or even same - week delivery, this new wave of services — more tech companies than grocery retailers, really — promise delivery within one to three hours in larger cities.

Other research, like the Copenhagen City Heart Study, looked at healthy joggers and nonjoggers for more than a decade and determined that «the most favorable running regimen for reducing cardiovascular mortality» was six miles per week, broken down into three running days per week at a pace of seven miles per hour.

Ninety - seven percent of American children ages 12 to 17 play an average of at least one hour of video games per day — games that wearables could render more visually and physically engaging.

Give yourself an hour every day, and more at the weekends, to work on your business.

For example, breakfast is not the most important meal of the day, working out for half an hour is more effective for weight loss than an hour and saturated fat doesn't cause heart disease.

The study of 1,787 US adults ages 19 through 32 found that participants who visited social media services more than two hours a day had twice the odds for «social isolation» compared to their peers who spent less than half an hour on services like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat.

Bloom and Liang found study participants who worked from home also put in more hours and took fewer sick days, thanks to not having to commute as well as the ability to start earlier in the day.

They don't have more hours in the day than other people, but they are more disciplined about setting and achieving goals, says Brad Sugars, founder of ActionCOACH, a business coaching service with offices in 34 countries.

The charges were announced less than an hour after The Intercept published a top - secret document from the U.S. National Security Agency that described Russian efforts to launch cyber attacks on at least one U.S. voting software supplier and send «spear - phising» emails, or targeted emails that try to trick a recipient into clicking on a malicious link to steal data, to more than 100 local election officials days before the presidential election last November.

Days are 10 hours or more and revolve around managing relationships with sub-trades, clients, suppliers and bureaucrats.

Studies relying on self - reported data have come to even more alarming conclusions; a survey conducted by the U.K. branch of Weight Watchers, for example, found that people were sitting an average of 14 hours and 39 minutes a day.

European researchers found that people who work 11 hours or more every day have 60 % greater risk of heart attack, angina and death from cardiovascular disease than those who just work 7 or 8 hours, according to Bloomberg.

European researchers found that people who work 10 hours or more every day have a 60 % greater risk of a multitude of cardiovascular problems, including heart attack and angina.