Sentences with phrase «out of a staff of»

At last count, there were 1,200 married couples at Southwest out of a staff of 35,000 (these figures don't reflect the recent AirTran merger).

HP last May announced plans to reduce its workforce by some 27,000 people out of a staff of 350,000.

The head at Cooper Lane was concerned that with only one male teacher out of a staff of 24, that there were few positive male role models for pupils.

At present, out of a staff of 15, only one employee of the applicant is Indigenous.

Not exact matches

Upworthy, the «viral content» outlet that has been through at least one significant pivot recently, said Friday that it is laying off almost 15 % of its staff, or 14 out of a total of 97 employees.

By avoiding the task of employing extra staff members or handling operations such as payroll and web development, employees at a company will also be able to free up more time to focus on delivering their goods to their customers and carrying out the tasks that they were employed for in the first place.

Startups and small businesses often face a number of unique challenges including deficient funding, client dependence, insufficient staff and struggles with balancing out their desires to create top quality products and services, provide their users with the best possible experience and increase their sales margins.

One easy way to personalize your emails is to include photos of staff members on a team outing or a goofy picture of everyone at the office.

Michael Barbaro of the New York Times, for instance, had this to say about Trump's social marketing via Twitter: «Mr. Trump has mastered Twitter in a way no candidate for president ever has, unleashing and redefining its power as a tool of political promotion, distraction, score - settling and attack — and turning a 140 - character task that other candidates farm out to young staff members into a centerpiece of his campaign.»

If on the other hand, you're given a smidgen of feedback that resonates, try to figure out exactly what's involved: Your staff?

Your IT staff can be an excellent resource for, say, training employees to spot a phishing email or how to get the most out of a business app.

Businesses can avoid printing out copies of staff handbooks (including original versions and new versions), and instead make the handbooks retrievable from a place where all employees can access them, such as a company intranet.

In less than a year, Weiss went from hashing out the formulas for each product with a team of 15 to banking revenue in the multiple millions (she declined to be more specific) and managing a staff of 30.

«Maybe I should tell my staff they will be featured in your video in lieu of receiving payment for work carried out while you're in residence?»

Instead of employing an extra member of staff, business owners are turning to Virtual Digital Assistants who are designed to carry out work duties in remote locations.

Made by a company called Bossa Nova, the bots wander the shelves, doing inventory scanning, noting when things are out of stock, and alerting staff to mislabeled or mispriced items.

Record numbers of consumers drive out to malls, big boxes and smaller retailers only to be ignored by skeleton staffs and made to feel like they are troubling the staff when asking for help.

Legere even claims that store staff love their uniforms: «One of the most satisfying moments you can witness any day at 8 p.m. in any city in America, which is, go watch the lights go out at a Verizon store.

If staff need to send out emails to a large number of people on a mailing list, then they should use a blind carbon copy (bcc), so that recipients» names can't be seen by other people.

On a scale out of seven, the magazine staff rated 4.8, meaning we're about as happy as employees in the ever - downtrodden manufacturing sector and significantly less happy than the normal knowledge - based worker.

Space Small business owners «wear so many hats, they usually have pretty limited support staff, and they're idea factories,» says Julie Morgensten, a productivity consultant and the author of Organizing from the Inside Out.

«We go out of our way to make sure not to describe ourselves as a hotel, because a hotel is agnostic as to what you do,» said Staff.

According to her motion for preliminary injunction, her staff was let go, and she was shut out of discussions regarding her company's fate, even though she was the brand's founder and artistic director.

«And I think all of our staff feels great showing solidarity with out immigrant team members,» Myerow added.

Many of our retailers as well will carry our system in the shop and we're educating all of the staff out there on the floor so they know how to sell this.»

More than just donating money, your company can be a platform for serving others who can benefit from your company's existence, whether it's the efforts and labor of your staff, the distribution of profits (check out Life is Good's Playmakers program), or just spreading important messages to your customers (for example, Patagonia, which has encouraged its customers to repair products, rather than replace them).

«And they don't do it out of a desire to have me be the center of that, but they do it out of necessity, because it would be impossible for them to have a staff meeting every single day to talk about the schedules of 100 - plus athletes.

As leaders and managers of people, our job is to continuously learn and grow; to figure out new ways to relate to staff.

We spoke with leaders of eight successful companies to find out their secrets for galvanizing their staffs, clients and even themselves.

«The cost of rent and staff is equal to what we're paying the likes of Google for digital advertising and producing direct - mail promotions,» he points out.

I have a daily action plan (you can get a free copy on my website, savorthesuccess.com) that I have my staff fill out at the beginning of the day.

But rather than keeping everyone in a fancy building in downtown Vancouver, the company has staff working out of 26 offices spread across Western Canada in towns of all sizes — something made financially viable by the resources brought in by the giant projects.

Navigating this complex system often requires companies to hire immigration lawyers and deputize staff members to fill out forms and keep track of paperwork for extended periods.

To sustain a startup - like attitude, in 2009 the Henderson, Nev. - based e-commerce giant launched Zappos Labs, a San Francisco division staffed with 11 full - time employees dedicated to exploring what consumers want out of their shopping experiences, then creating new ways for them to engage on the main site.

Under the leadership of President and Chief Baking Officer Bobbie Lloyd, the company trains its staff to frost cupcakes the Magnolia Way, continues to refine founder Allysa Torey's original recipes (check out The Complete Magnolia Bakery Cookbook), and emails personal apologies to the rare customer who has a bad experience with its counter staff.

To determine the tunes the dog digs, shelter staff tested out a number of playlists to see what resonates with a particular pup.

«We never had enough money — or we were always too cheap — to hire any kind of administrative staff, so [my co-founder] and I were always the ones dealing with sending out offer letters, setting people up on payroll or signing them up for health insurance.

Bloomberg had read a draft blog post in which SoundCloud CEO Alex Ljung explained that the company was letting go of 173 staff, and shutting down its offices in London and San Francisco (leaving only offices in New York City and Berlin) as part of an effort to reduce costs at the company whose losses have been spiralling out of control.

He focused on how Comey called Trump and his staff «liars,» saying that Comey «thought so little of President - Elect Trump's first briefing reaction he started documenting everything» and pointing out that Comey «gave a first person account of an obstruction narrative.»

«I thought if I could figure it out — and I don't have formal technical training — it would be fairly intuitive for the rest of our staff, the ones actually using it.»

Maybe they've noted a company bowling outing, or a successful project a staff member was proud of.

These nurses may collect a housing allowance and can have a say over their hours and choice of hospitals, which need these contract workers to fill in for staff out on maternity leave (normally for 13 weeks), or felled by a bad flu season.

«When inDinero ran out of funding and I had to lay off our staff several years ago, I learned to never read or believe your own headlines, good or bad.

Then a second piece appeared that featured comments from an anonymous editor about how staff routinely kept certain sites and topics out of the Trending feed.

or perhaps the boss warned the staff that if they didn't sell out that disgusting ice cream sushi with pickles today, they're out of a job!»

People might not even think of this, but there are people who work in tech but are low - paid, like cafeteria workers and custodial staff, and a lot of them also live out of their cars because they just can't afford being in housing.

As someone who used to manage a small staff, she knows perfectionism from both sides, and has learned that getting the most out of perfectionists requires putting restrictions on their ability to be perfect, such as a time frame.

San Francisco — based Airbnb, a sort of hotel booking site for couch surfers, allows people who have extra space (like a spare room, guest house or sofa) to rent it out to travellers looking for a place to stay; «trust scores,» guest reviews and support from Airbnb staff give the site a sense of community that's missing from competitors Craigslist or Kijiji.

The night after they obtained a guilty verdict against one defendant, in 2011, prosecutors and their staff spent a total of $ 763.80 for dinner at a country club (divided by the 18 individuals present, that comes out to $ 42.39 each).

«Rand has always said that he wanted to be a leader on the message of the Republican Party, and that means talking about old ideas that were part of the party's original message, and introducing new ideas that might help the party broaden its appeal to groups that may have been left out of the conversation,» Doug Stafford, Paul's Senate chief of staff, told Business Insider.