Sentences with phrase «policy company like»

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When employees bring their own devices to work — whether bosses like it or not — it forces companies to reconsider their locked - down technology policies.

In the absence of a federal policy for paid sick leave, it is remarkable that a large Fortune 500 company like Microsoft is now performing the role of setting employment policy for other businesses.

Most companies have insurance policies designed to cover the more obvious financial ramifications of incidents like fires, floods, or hurricanes.

For instance, companies that adopt diversity programs, offer mentorship, and have pro-family policies like paid family leave seem to do a better job keeping their talent, she writes.

As marijuana legalization slowly passes state by state and lawmakers discuss national reform, companies are calling into question prohibition - era policies like employee drug testing.

«For many organizations, having an internal incubator is like an insurance policy — if the market moves, the companies are ready to change directions or grow new business quickly.»

Far better, Friedman argues, to emulate forward - thinking companies like LinkedIn, Netflix and Calgary's BluEra, which offer unlimited vacation policies to emphasize that it's OK to take as much — or as little — time off, as long as employees get their jobs done.

Trump has proposed a «merit - based» immigration policy that he's said will directly benefit tech companies like Facebook that already rely on being able to hire skilled workers from other countries.

Moreover, many people have actively pursued us, mentioning the company vibe and values, expressing a desire to work at a place where they are treated like people (and mentioning the policy).

If Trump's policy toward China were tough, it might look like was exerting pressure in an effort to win better terms on his company's loans.

Companies everywhere are embracing e-learning platforms to educate their team on things like new products, procedures or company policies.

And what besides zealotry would lead him to tear up a policy that is widely popular with the American public who, understandably, are wary of increasing the power of companies like Comcast?

If your company doesn't have a clear hire - from - within policy, many employees will begin to feel stagnant or like they're being held back from succeeding professionally.

When business folks do engage on public policy, it tends to directly involve their bottom line, like the recent feud between the big telecommunication companies and Harper over foreign ownership rules.

In the infographic below, WebpageFX, a Web marketing company, outlines the policies of social media sites like Facebook, Twitter and Google.

They are asking for policies that most well run companies have adopted; things like majority vote standards, so directors are only elected to the board if a majority of shareholders want them there.

Mills, like many other policy experts and analysts, is in favor of some financial regulatory reform, especially as regards the newer lending startups and other fintech companies targeting small businesses.

From big companies like Facebook to smaller start - ups, every time a firm announces a flexible and substantive paid leave policy for new parents, commentators cheer.

According to Sleep Like The Dead, the Helix mattress is extremely comfortable, but on top of that it's ultra-quiet and the company offers a 100 - day no - fee return policy.

A Google spokeswoman said the company's policies will try to anticipate workarounds like this.

Proponents of the private buses say the buses cut emission levels and congestion, while critics and activists say they are just another example of the technology industry forcing San Francisco to offer up overly generous policies (including large tax breaks for companies like Zynga and Twitter).

However, companies seem to be creating stronger security policies as a response, like creating formal, written security guidelines for their teams to follow as well as audits.

Silicon Valley's wealth of perks, like nap rooms, free food, and pet - friendly policies, has raised the bar for many companies.

On Nov. 20, the city planning committee agreed to change the official plan so that additional drive - thrus could not be located in «special policy areas,» like the historic downtown, unless the company submits an urban design study that satisfies the overall plan.

Companies that have made such agreements, like the world's No. 1 retailer Wal - Mart Stores Inc and convenience store chain Kwik Trip, say they expect to uphold the commitments they have made regardless of any policy changes in Washington.

Megan Randall, a researcher at the Urban Institute who studies economic development policy, said companies cared most about a talented work force, which requires good schools and colleges, and amenities like affordable housing, parks and public transit that make a place desirable.

«Trump campaigned on the negative impacts of trade and trade deals like NAFTA on working Americans, but here instead he is intervening not to help working people but to help American investors and American multinational companies,» Rob Scott, director of trade and manufacturing at the Economic Policy Institute, a left - leaning think tank, told me in an interview in the runup to the investigation announcement.

«I promised that my policies would allow companies like Apple to bring massive amounts of money back to the United States,» Mr. Trump tweeted on Wednesday.

Agents also said the change could spur some innovation in the disability income market and one area companies may push further into is to bundle disability insurance with other forms of coverage like long - term care in a hybrid policy.

But he said moving to meet climate targets is becoming more affordable because while policy is still important the energy market is transforming so fast that «market forces have taken over», market forces around wind and solar power and batteries «are just accelerating regardless of what anyone else does» and decisions by companies like AGL Energy to close their Liddell coal power station «are being made on economic grounds».

Yet for us to expect that the results of our current innovation policies and investments will miraculously spur new companies and significant economic growth is, as many people like to say, the definition of insanity: doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting a different result.

But other funds may hold companies like Whole Foods or Starbucks with well - known environmental policies.

Companies like L.L. Bean, Walmart Inc., Kroger Co. and Dick's Sporting Goods Inc. have all announced new gun sales policies in the wake of the massacre in Parkland, Fla..

Furthermore, many foreign companies do not pay a consistent quarterly dividend like US companies; therefore, foreign company dividend policies are not always suitable to building a consistent passive income stream

A life insurance broker — like Quotacy — offers you competitive pricing and policy options from multiple life insurance companies during the quoting stage.

E-commerce companies, like all online businesses, need to pay close attention to cyber liability and data breach insurance in addition to other policies.

«It seems like the end of this populist movement against the drug companies and their pricing policies,» Leedom said.

Like most types of businesses, tech companies and startups need to, at the very lease, put in place a general liability insurance policy or a business owner's policy (BOP).

But the company doesn't take a strong stand on other controversial issues, like abortion or tax policies.

Which is exactly what Basis plans to do — despite, it would seem, such control over the supply of a cryptocurrency causing perception problems for companies like Ripple, and attracting ire from certain quarters of the cryptocurrency community that instinctively shuns such interventionist policies.

Almost immediately after joining Uber, Whetstone turned toward her old shop, Google, as well as a few other Silicon Valley companies like Square, to fill out the policy roster for the ride - hailing juggernaut as it continued to mount political battles across the globe.

For those who haven't had the time to read the legaled - up language of every single privacy policy we encounter (which, considering Carnegie Mellon researchers estimated it would take the average user the equivalent of 76 work days per year to do, is most of us), and even for people like me who do it for a living and still find disclosure gaps, the Facebook — Cambridge Analytica scandal managed to shed a bit of light on the otherwise obscure relationships between some tech companies and advertisers.

Facebook Inc. updated its data policy to better spell out what information it collects and how the company uses it across the social network and other services like Instagram and Messenger.

... If you don't like their policy (this is a privately held company after all) then don't go to their restaurants!

when they got the Pres of the US to come out and endorse their policies yet a small company like Chick endorses the Boy Scouts its subversive.

If you don't like that a company incorporates religious nonsense into it's policies, that's tough; you don't get to tell them how to operate.

Many Americans, let alone women throughout the world, do not have the luxury of choosing how long they would like to stay home with their new babies; it is a decision made for them — often by personal budgets, company policies, or a combination of both.

Safety policies should cover company procedures for extreme weather events like hurricanes, blizzards and other situations that could potentially be hazardous for employees.

Since we constantly are reviewing and developing new items, we have adopted a policy, like many companies, of not accepting or pursuing new product - related suggestions from outside of our company.

Research shows that a majority of global consumers, and especially Millennials, support companies that are committed to minimizing environmental impacts and that prioritize sustainable approaches to operations.2 To share more about its water initiatives, Fetzer Vineyards developed a new page on its website containing facts about agricultural water use and details about the company's water policy support. Visit fetzer.com/water for more on Fetzer Vineyards» water initiatives, including its adoption of BioFiltro's BIDA ® treatment system and its support for water conservation research and advocacy through collaborations with groups like the Beverage Industry Environmental Roundtable (BIER) and Ceres» Connect the Drops, both of which were commended for their water policy efforts at the White House Water Summit on Building a Sustainable Water Future in the United States on March 22, 2016.