Sentences with phrase «of commute from»

The Northwest Tollway, opened in 1958, brought more attention to the Hoffman Estates area due to the ease of commuting from the village to Chicago.

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The average round - trip commute time is about an hour, but it's not that uncommon for people to commute from the far reaches of the Central Valley into the city.
According to data from Pew Charitable Trust, between 2010 and 2015, the number of people who commute 90 minutes or more to work has skyrocketed.
If you like your job but the Sunday dread comes from the stress of commuting, you might be a good fit for remote work.
Commuting to and from work takes up a big chunk of your day.
If anything the potential for disruption is greater in Alberta, where people think nothing of driving three hours each way for a weekend jaunt in the mountains and where Calgary and Edmonton are putting the finishing touches on ring roads that link far - flung suburbs and quicken the commutes from semi-rural acreages.
Firstly, allowing an employee to work from home can make them more productive on that day because they are relaxed and better rested for the lack of commute.
Though it is a Monday afternoon in San Francisco, and Zinger arrived only yesterday from Paris — a commute he bites off twice a month with help from unspecified pharmaceuticals and plenty of beer — he is easily the most animated presence in the room, in command of the podium and the neutral zone in front of it, into which he wanders freely.
Your entrepreneur's commute often consists of relocating all the way from the bedroom to the couch or his desk.
In an annual survey of expats around the globe, some 9,000 workers in over 100 countries were asked to score 43 aspects of their lives abroad, from commuting and ease of setting up utilities to the cost of education and the ease of making friends — for both expats and their children.
Levy reported that in a 2004 study of suburban rail commuters taking the train from New Jersey to Manhattan, «Wener and his coauthor Gary Evans found that the longer their test subjects» journey was, the higher the levels of cortisol (the primary stress hormone) in their saliva, and the more difficult they found to focus on the task of proofreading assigned them at the end of their commute
I'm not exaggerating when I say that Dagne Dover's Classic Tote, which is big enough to hold my 13» MacBook and a lot of other everyday essentials, has made my commute to and from the office a lot more convenient.
I was actually commuting to Seattle because on September 10, 2001, my wife moved from San Francisco, which is where Hotwire was, to Seattle to go to med school at the University of Washington.
If there was one takeaway from the video Google released last week of its self - driving cars — besides the fact that, you know, they drive themselves — it's how boring the typical commute could soon be.
Despite the trend towards increased workplace flexibility in the form of perks like unlimited PTO, working from home and staggered hours to cut down on commute time, more Millennials are job hopping or leaving behind the security of full - time employment to join the gig economy.
In addition to SpaceX, the entrepreneur serves as chief executive of Tesla Motor Co., an electric car company, is chairman and co-founder of SolarCity and is working to build a high - speed «Hyperloop» transportation system, which — in theory — could revolutionize travel by cutting commute time from Los Angeles to San Francisco to 30 minutes.
Each of us chases after a desirable «rating» — an average score (out of 5 stars) that's affected by everything from that sideways glance you gave the woman walking past you on your morning commute to the lack of enthusiasm you displayed for the birthday gift your co-worker gave you.
There are a million and one science - backed happiness hacks out there, from redesigning your commute to spending more time in nature (and no doubt you'll benefit from trying any of these that strikes your fantasy), but one intervention might just beat them all when it comes to the size of the well - being boost you can expect: helping others.
Now subtract from that 4.3 hours a week of commuting time — think of those hours as zombie time — and another 2.5 hours a week or so of getting ready for work each morning.
However, it did recommend the creation of an Ontario Pension Agency to provide a home for commuted values of DB pensions that are transferred from EPPs.
His biography contains elements of an epic novel: growing up the son of a jailed Trotskyist labor leader in whose Chicago home he met Rosa Luxembourg's and Karl Liebknecht's colleagues; serving as a young balance of payments analyst for David Rockefeller whose Chase Manhattan Bank was calculating how much interest the bank could extract on loans to South American countries; touring America on Vatican - sponsored economics lectures; turning after a riot at a UN Third World debt meeting in Mexico to the study of ancient debt cancellation practices through Harvard's Babylonian Archeology department; authoring many books about finance from Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire [1972] to J is For Junk Economics: A Guide to Reality in an Age of Deception [2017]; and lately, among many other ventures, commuting from his Queens home to lecture at Peking University in Beijing where he hopes to convince the Chinese to avoid the debt - fuelled economic model off which Western big bankers feast and apply lessons he and his colleagues have learned about the debt relief practices of the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia.
Currently, people who are working from home in the United States avoid emitting 3.6 million tons of commuting - related greenhouse gasses annually.
In San Francisco during the morning commute, 10 percent of UberPool trips are to or from the Bay Area Rapid Transit train.
And there are a number of reasons — from wanting to ditch a commute and have a job that moves with them to being able to balance all that their personal and professional lives have to offer.
In lieu of a car allowance, under our security policy for our Chairman and our CEO, we provide a car and driver to Mr. Kovacevich and to Mr. Stumpf that each of them used primarily for business and occasionally for commuting from home to office or to outside events.
Whether it's allowing workers to shift their schedules to avoid nasty commutes, work from home occasionally, or even explore part - time options, you'll find that they appreciate offers of work flex.
By the early 2000s, 25 % of employed men and 10 % of employed women were working 50 or more hours per week.24 And 35 - 40 % of Americans were working outside regular hours (9 am to 5 pm) and / or days (Monday to Friday).25 Average commute time rose from 40 minutes in 1980 to 50 minutes in the late 2000s.26
Aside from not having to commute to work, home business owners typically have a better work life balance, and the expenses related to the portion of the home used for business are fully tax - deductible.
Five years ago, Ivan Duque was a little - known official at a Washington development bank, commuting from the leafy suburb of Chevy Chase.
The Islamist terror threat will doubtlessly feed the nationalist and anti-immigrant parties agenda, and put Schengen on the front line as nationalists consider that the open - border policy enables terrorists to commute freely within groups of refugees coming from Syria.
In the future, some of us might even find ourselves working in SF, but commuting from a much more affordable area far away from Silicon Valley's outrageous rental environment.
The property is also just two blocks away from the Atlantic Terminal with access to the D, N, R, B, Q, 2,3,4,5 subway lines and the LIRR, making the commute in and out of Manhattan just 15 minutes.
Tesla says it obtained the image of the more recent photo from the dash cam of a witness who regularly makes the commute.
Many self - employed professionals and small business owners in the United States work exclusively from the comfort of their homes, earning their income without having to commute to and from an outside office.
A longer commute is considered acceptable under the following circumstances: 1) «it is not uncommon given the place where the claimant resides» or 2) it is comparable to «the claimant's daily commuting time to or from their place of work» at its previous job.
Of course there's no commute easier than from your kitchen to your home office, but besides ease, think of all the money you're saving on gas, car wear and tear, upkeep, etcOf course there's no commute easier than from your kitchen to your home office, but besides ease, think of all the money you're saving on gas, car wear and tear, upkeep, etcof all the money you're saving on gas, car wear and tear, upkeep, etc..
In fact, according to information from Global Workplace Analytics, 92 percent of employees were concerned with the high cost of fuel, and 80 percent specifically cited the cost of commuting to work.
The benchmarking analysis shows that Greater Vancouver's performance in this area is poor — it gets «C» grades for the average commute time to and from work and for the proportion of the workforce that non-car commutes.
Remote Work — Performing the functions of a job, often from home, without the need to commute to a central place of employment, such as an office building.
NerdWallet examined data from a variety of sources to compare the cost of commuting each week via ridesharing service Uber vs. a personal vehicle in the 20 largest U.S. metropolitan areas by population, to see if owning a vehicle for work is cost - effective.
With plenty of D.C. suburbs to choose from, many homeowners commute to the city for work.
The red tail - lights from the car in front of you flashes on and off during your rush hour commute.
Thanks to the generosity and understanding of my CNN bosses, I stepped back from the full - time role I'd filled for fifteen years or more, and racked up 350 miles a week commuting between home, college and studios.
If the commute from Kansas City to St. John wasn't a 3 1/2 day drive... I would be a part of your commumity and you would be my pastor... naked or not.
I have a long commute to work, whether it's on my way to or from work, I am always thinking of food.
I say it is humble but it was also the one that absolutely hit the spot, more than once, after coming home late from long days of work, hard runs, and commuting.
Apart from the nippy weather, many of us start to notice change is in the air when the local chemist has started advertising flu vaccines to prevent seasonal influenza and more throats become scratchy and noses sniffly on our morning commute.
My commute to and from work every day alone means that I am cycling about 27 miles a day, which means that I am burning somewhere in the region of 1500 calories per day.
When it opened in 1898 (six years after the architect A. Page Brown designed it), it was the hub of waterborne transportation for the entire region, welcoming both commuting workers and newcomers from overseas.
Just minutes from downtown Temecula's Old Town and Temecula Valley Wine Country, visitors are encouraged to skip the lengthy commute to Las Vegas and explore the world - class entertainment, AAA Four Diamond Resort lodging and amenities, massive 200,000 square foot casino floor, luxurious spa, award - winning golf, and curated cuisines of Pechanga Resort and Casino.
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