Sentences with phrase «of spending all day at»

I had the pleasure of spending a day at Farm Red Orach, and learned a great deal about sustainable agriculture.

On Friday, March 19 I had the pleasure of spending the day at the Dyson Headquarters in downtown Chicago.

I wrote 18 months ago about the negative health effects of spending all day at your desk.

Not exact matches

The push in recent years to patronize small businesses for holiday shopping resulted in the creation of Small Business Saturday, and this year's holiday shoppers spent an estimated $ 5.5 billion at small businesses the day after Black Friday.

It seems like I spend twice as long in the car every day idling my way through rush hour and staring at the rusted bumper of the car in front of me, when I could be writing and connecting with clients at work.

As holiday rituals go, it's a strange one: you get up at the crack of dawn to fight your way through crushing crowds (and often terrible weather), only to spend a day surrounded by utter pandemonium.

Organized as a follow - up to January's Women's March on Washington, the one - day walk - out — called the International Women's Strike, or A Day Without A Woman in the U.S. — will see participants opting out of paid or unpaid labour, curtail spending (unless it's at women - or minority - owned businesses) and wear rday walk - out — called the International Women's Strike, or A Day Without A Woman in the U.S. — will see participants opting out of paid or unpaid labour, curtail spending (unless it's at women - or minority - owned businesses) and wear rDay Without A Woman in the U.S. — will see participants opting out of paid or unpaid labour, curtail spending (unless it's at women - or minority - owned businesses) and wear red.

On September 10th of this year I spent an entire day in California State Prison at the California City Correctional Facility with people who had committed felonies and worked with them on business plans to help them create legal enterprise upon their release as part of Defy Ventures 6 - month training program.

HAVING spent three days at the Financial Planning Association (FPA) confer - ence in Brisbane last week, it is probably appropriate for me to report on the state of the nation, insofar as financial planners are concerned.

Project Time Off estimates that unused vacation days cost the U.S. economy $ 236 billion in 2016 because of lost spending, but there are also penalties to pay at the individual level.

Most office employees spend the majority of their day seated, whether it is seated at their desks, sitting in team meetings, or sitting down with their boss or colleagues.

But, at the same time, spending a lot of time with someone and having to make huge hard decisions every day causes disagreement.

Warren Buffett spends 80 to 90 percent of his day reading hundreds of pages to amass knowledge to be better at what he does.

Early last week, I spent three days among some of the most powerful people in business, media, and innovation at Dell's 5th annual Dell Women's Entrepreneur Network, or DWEN, conference in Austin.

I also knew I wanted to be with my son every day as much as possible, hence me getting up at 3 am to work so I could spend sunrise to sundown taking care of him.

My 29 «Foundations of Entrepreneurial Management» students at Babson College made solid 12 - month revenue estimates in three days so I know it can be done without spending a huge amount of time or money.

An employee who spends 250 days a year with his employer, who spends more time at the office than with his or her own children on any week day, is investing most of their human experience with that employer.

Most people spend a significant amount of time at their workplace, often about half their waking day or more.

Someone at Ralph Lauren introduced her to Amy Astley, then the editor in chief of Teen Vogue, and Weiss spent her sophomore through senior years cramming her classes into two days so she could spend the other three interning at the magazine.

Buffett estimates that he spends 80 percent of his waking day reading at work (financial statements, journals, reports) and at home (newspapers and books).

I spend at least an hour every day reading and engaging communities — I consider it part of my lifelong education.

At just 15 years old, his father sent him to spend eight days alone in a remote cabin on the coast of Washington in a heavily wooded place called Iron Springs.

How you spend your first few minutes at work every morning can largely determine how productive and effective you'll be the rest of the day.

Our bodies can only take so many sneezes on a flight before our immune system takes a hit and we find ourselves spending our hard - earned vacation days staring at the ceiling of a hotel bathroom.

The Insider Picks team spends all day looking at products and has put together tons of helpful gift guides, so you can find something that works for everyone, and for a price that fits your budget.

While he and his colleagues did the trade show, his wife, Fran, and other RioCan spouses spent the day at the outsized outlet malls on the edge of Sin City.

At 72, Crystal Harris spends most of her days responding to 911 calls after a nearby hospital closed.

Many factors are contributing to this: the ubiquity of smartphones and internet access, the increasingly global scope of business and, importantly, greater acceptance of flexible and / or alternative work arrangements (think: spending only three hours in the office during the day, then catching up from the neighbourhood coffee shop at night).

We spend most of our day at work.

(At least that's how I spent my single days, which is one of many reasons why I'm glad to be married.)

CEO David Lepejian (pictured in the magazine at Nasdaq the day of his IPO) spent 18 - hour days hyping his company's IPO to newly skittish moneyed types who were reluctant to add to their growing portfolios - cum - compost of incorporated carrion.

We spent our days brainstorming new campaigns, creating advertising slogans and, at the end of the day, creativity was what mattered.

If you don't know which one of these your company is, you need to get that straight before you spend one more day or one more dollar at it.

They're rewarded with pay they can spend at market days, consuming many of the same goods they produce.

What's more, spending time on it at the beginning of the day ensures that it gets your attention before others (kids, employees, bosses) use it all up.

Salesforce had no comment, but according to a Twitter (twtr) post, Benioff spent part of Wednesday, the day of the summit, at the White House with President Barack Obama (and magician David Blaine.)

Our «to do list» are getting longer, the demands on our limited time are increasing daily and we spend much of our day juggling the mountain of communication that is directed at us, across multiple platforms.

Major Brian de Leon, a 15 - year veteran of the Army with three tours of duty in Iraq, arrived at Wexley's Seattle offices in April and has been spending three days a week with the company's creative team.

When you're in a role that's fulfilling or working with a team of people you're excited to see every day, you tend to enjoy spending more time at work.

Frind's account of his own exploits, published on his blog in 2006 under the title «How I Started a Dating Empire,» says a lot about his worldview: «I spent every waking minute when I wasn't at my day job reading, studying, and learning.

On what has and hasn't changed at Yelp over the years: I still spend a ton of time with product and engineering, we do seem to get a lot more press attention these days, but perhaps most fortunately I haven't had to invest a lot of time with Wall Street (if you pardon the pun)... our CFO Rob Krolik handles most of that.

That means he spends little time on social media, and batches shallow work into small bursts of time at the peripheries of the day.

If we are going to solve this crisis, we need to provide tools to people where they spend most of their day — at work.»

«Thus, if obese individuals were to replace time spent sitting at the computer with walking computer time by two to three hours / day, and if other components of energy balance were constant, a weight loss of 20 kg to 30 kg / year could occur.»

God forbid that you look back at the end of the day and have to acknowledge that you spent hours checking your email or surfing the Internet.

Spending 40 hours or so per week at your day job doesn't leave a whole lot of other time to build your business and have a personal life.

That's especially true at Vanguard's Scottsdale office — a site that employs more than 2,000 people, many of whom spend their days fielding customer calls.

With the exception of 17 months, three weeks and four days spent at a national publication that will remain nameless, I really have always loved what I do.

She has a masters degree in communications and wants to work in television, but Kumar spends much of her day at home, chatting with friends over social media.

So during the day I'm managing the retail store, but at nighttime, that's when I spend most of my time on development.