Sentences with phrase «of our work force as»

«We have 46 percent of our work force as women and minorities, including 25 percent in our U. S. work force,» Koestler explains.»

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Non-permanent workers such as freelancers have grown from 17 to 36 percent of the U.S. work force over the past 25 years and are expected to comprise 43 percent of the work force by 2020, according to Alex Chriss, vice president and general manager of Self - Employed Solutions at Intuit.

Those looking for a deep dive into what Laszewski thinks will actually work can check out the complete post, but for non-wonks, his bottom line seems to be this: To fix health care we need to control costs overall, and to do that, the industry as a whole must be forced to stay within a set budget rather than gobbling up more and more of the nation's money.

In the days to come the Fed will have to prove that a new set of tools for managing interest rates will work as expected; see how higher U.S. rates affect domestic and global financial conditions; and hope that weak world demand and commodity prices do not lead to an overall bout of deflation and force the Fed to reverse course.

The survey of 16,000 people in 15 countries highlights the changing global retirement landscape as economic pressures and longer life expectancy force people to work longer.

«Banks are still a dominant hiring force for MBAs and continue to attract top talent, but working for larger, established companies off of Wall Street is becoming more attractive to MBAs as they offer a different type of lifestyle,» Scott Rostan, founder and CEO of Training The Street, a company that offers technical training to financial firms and business schools, said in a statement.

So it is constantly looking for new tools and better ways to get the job done; and (d) the company is struggling — right along with every other tech firm — with how it can make the work force more diverse even though, in terms of gender at least, it's already as diverse as any firm in the city.

The main campus of Bell Labs was designed so that researchers working on different projects would be forced to interact with one another as they went about their daily tasks.

In 1987, 8.6 % of the labour force worked in sales jobs, estimates Statistics Canada; a generation later, that figure has inched up to 9.7 %, with about 3.7 million Canadians working in «sales and service» as of September 2011.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has predicted a «summer of hell» for commuters as scheduled repairs force a partial shutdown of the busiest passenger train hub in the country from July 10 through Sept. 1, or longer if work falls behind schedule.

Recruiting women into the work force is an important element of Saudi Arabia's economic reform, known as Vision 2030.

The constraints should force you to consider an unfamiliar scenario, and you should try many of them as you work toward a viable solution.

As a result, the labor force participation rate, which measures the percentage of Americans who are working or looking for work, fell to 62.8 % — the lowest level since 1978.

He worked with the late Sen. Ted Stevens (R - AK) and the late Senator Daniel K. Inuye (D - HI) on the project and recalled that Stevens, who served as a pilot in the Army's air force during World War II, was eager to investigate claims that service members were often hesitant to report sightings to their superiors due to fear of being laughed at or stigmatized.

The number of women, African - Americans and Hispanics employed at companies such as Google, Facebook and Yahoo lag far behind the U.S. work force as a whole; meanwhile, only 3 percent of venture funding is earmarked for female founders, and founders of color claim less than 1 percent, according to U.S. chief technology officer Megan Smith.

«With no lines of authority to lean on, they were forced to have leadership emerge,» says Lloyd Fickett, a Phoenix - basedmanagement consultant who works as a part - time executive at Rodel and who taught the class.

Most of those opening private clinics are major corporations with large work forces, such as Intel and Hewlett - Packard.

With his threats of large tariffs on imported goods, he has succeeded in forcing these giants to make uneconomic decisions — such as Carrier paying $ 25 per hour to its workers in Indiana to do work that can be done by Mexican employees for $ 2.50 per hour.

One of us would say, «well, I have to check this recipe» or «I have to check something for work,» and the other would jump on their phones, forcing us to write the day off as a failure.

The «Wheel of Fortune» host joined the US Army in 1968, first working as a finance clerk in Vietnam and then as a disc jockey for 18 months on armed - forces radio.

The list came with many surprising data points: Muncie, Indiana, was named as the city with the best access to financing, and Southern California (otherwise lauded as the «Silicon Beach») was said to have one of the least educated work forces in the U.S. — in the cities of Bell Gardens, Maywood, Coachella, Soledad, and Wasco.

The «Wheel of Fortune» host joined the US Army in 1968, first working as a finance clerk in Vietnam and then as a disc jockey for 18 months on armed forces radio.

Meanwhile, researchers have also cast doubt on the long - term efficacy of «forced fun» at work, finding that required levity can lead to an array of bad outcomes such as burnout among employees, and that these cheerful work cultures often serve to distract workers from excessive control or poor conditions elsewhere in the business.

Tech workers comprise as much as 17 percent of the Alpharetta work force, with IT workers at 15 percent.

Bashar was beaten regularly, put to work as a house slave for her captor's family in Raqqa, and forced to work in an explosives warehouse, where she made suicide vests using a chemical paste infused with small metal components, or «pieces of iron,» she recalls.

They are also forced to learn lessons about areas of business that are out of their field of expertise (marketing, sales, finance, etc.)-- lessons they would never learn (at least to as great a degree) if they worked as an employee at a company.

Most people in olden days worked until they physically couldn't or were forced out of a job as they aged.

And even when bland was forced on him, as seen in a series of cover portraits of white - mustachioed businessman, Timmermann produced work on par with any cover artist of his day.

Jessica Jones really wouldn't have worked without Krysten Ritter tackling both the toughness and the trauma of Jessica, and there was definitely empowerment in Jessica's actions as she forced herself to face her fear and fight Kilgrave.

Hogan brought about 25 AmerCable employees to his session — more than 10 % of his work force — as well as a handful of his investors, all of whom worked together to generate goals that employees could commit to because they had created them for themselves.

«The CEO of a huge corporation who has to give pink slips to 5,000 workers he has never met would not be under as much stress as the head of a small firm who is forced to fire a few employees he has known and worked with for years,» Rosch says.

We will be better positioned to shape the forces of cloud, big data, mobile and security that are changing the way people live, businesses operate and the world works, just as we did when we helped revolutionize the power of the PC almost 30 years ago.

«This work will encourage responsible energy exploration and production, in order to advance the United States» position as a global energy force and foster security for the benefit of the American citizenry.»

Although typically portrayed as sending a message, boycotts actually send their message through brute force: they are — if and when they work — a form of bullying.

Ontario's unemployment fell a notch to 6.8 %, but the story there was much the same as in London — a drop in the number of working, offset by an even larger drop in the labour force.

Some of the forces working against Trump properties are those affecting the luxury condo market as a whole.

Today, there are fewer than half as many, which is a reflection both of teenagers» decreasing work force participation and of the explosive growth in restaurants.

And the Council of Economic Advisers announced that policies such as work flexibility «lead to higher labor force participation, greater labor productivity and work engagement, and better allocation of talent across the economy.»

As the financial capital of Canada, Toronto boasts a vibrant key industry clusters, a highly - skilled work force and an unmatched quality of life.

Chief Strategy Officer Imran Khan said, «I think as our business is becoming more and more programmatic, our sales force is becoming consultant [s] to our clients, and I think that is very important because I think we have still a lot of work to do to educate the market and really teach the market how to create vertical video ad unit [s] that really, really works in mobile environment.»

According to Variety, Harvey Weinstein has been «furiously resisting efforts to force him out [of the Weinstein Company] permanently,» going so far as to continue to appear at work after he said that he would be taking a leave of absence.

The labor force participation rate (the number of people employed and unemployment as a percentage of the population) and the employment rate (the ratio of persons 15 and older working to the population 15 and older) are both below their 2001 and 2008 levels.

Since then the Foundation has worked steadily to bring home the message that the emergence of Asia as an economic force is reshaping our world in ways that Canadians can only ignore at their peril.

He was part of President Clinton's task force on school violence, and today he works with some of the biggest celebrities like Lebron James, Denzel Washington and Jennifer Lopez just to name a few as vice president of sports and entertainment and alumni development for the Boys and Girls Club.

For example, while Reagan forced the Japanese, through the use of VER's, Voluntary Export Restraints, to move production to the US, hence the growth of Southern States, Right to Work States, as production sites, they also increased their exports of parts, from Japan, and other Japanese export platforms globally.

As Ford reduced its work force, he says: «It forced the remaining people to take on greater levels of responsibility.»

Unfortunately for the Japanese labour markets, as with many other countries, many young intellectuals seek further study elsewhere in countries like the UK that have renowned Universities and research facilities, taking a large portion of the skilled labour force the Japanese markets need, into other areas of work such as research and academia, a less hands on field that benefits the computer science industry on the whole but does not help specific firms achieve their targets directly.

Just as ultra-low rates drove down volatility, the same economic forces of substitution should work in reverse, lifting volatility as rates normalize and investors move away from selling volatility.

For those in this bracket of the work force, it is essential to realize just how much opportunity, benefits and advantages there are when it comes to having nonprofit insurance at hand, especially as a great means to a stable and secure future while at work and even through the years of retirement.

Is a cost - effective solution for short - term projects and business cycle peaks Boosts corporate presence on campus Develops a long - term sustainable recruitment strategy, as you can fill full - time roles with past Co-op students Students are pre-screened and go through a competitive application process Contributes to the development of the future work force Supports continuous learning