Sentences with phrase «said about flexibility»

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Wheeler says the mega-complexes being built today will be hard to staff 10 years from now, and that the next era will see smaller workplaces where employees are responsible for meeting achievements and objectives, and have flexibility about when they come in to their office.

About 59 percent of millennials said they value student loan repayment assistance over other perks, including flexible schedules, which is a departure from previous surveys that found flexibility to be the most desired workplace benefit, according to ORC.

Their choice, they say, is all about having the flexibility to invest in whatever initiatives they think will have the greatest impact, be they for - profit, nonprofit, or government sponsored.

The Telework Research Network, a consulting and research firm specializing in workplace flexibility strategies, said «something smells fishy about» the CareerBuilder report.

About 71 % of millennials say they want great work flexibility in a future job.

«One of the reasons that we wanted TFSAs in the first place was to make it easier for more people of different types and different income levels to save and have flexibility of how they went about saving,» he said.

You say it's all about leverage, power, and control, but you're forgetting speed and flexibility.

«I always step back and think about what's coming because we have so much flexibility with draft picks and free agency,» Brown says.

«There has to be flexibility because I'd be lying to you if I said, five - and - a-half years ago, we'd be having this conversation about being in Europe and being in the Premier League for a fourth out of five seasons, after having two promotions.

Erik Olson, head of food programs at Pew Charitable Trusts» health group, said calorie limits remain intact but schools will «have much more flexibility about how they present meals that kids will want to eat,» calling it «a fairly modest readjustment.»

So you don't have as much flexibility with how much weight they can lose and I know that they had to be life over 4.5 pounds before they would leave the hospital, and they were, I mean, I can't remember exact numbers because it's about two and a half years ago now, but I do remember them being big enough so that they could leave the hospital but then like I said, they need to go see the pediatrician like right away, I think it was like the next day.

School meals: The USDA says it is about to announce new school meal «flexibility» (translation: rollback of nutrition standards).

Budget spokesman Morris Peters said the new powers provided needed «flexibility» given the rhetoric of the incoming Trump administration and the possibility some of the $ 52 billion New York gets from Washington — about a third of the $ 152.3 billion spending plan Cuomo proposed this week — is reduced.

Asked about the figures, Cable said: «I don't actually recognise those numbers but there is a lot of flexibility already built in to the government's fiscal discipline.

«The real substantive issue with respect to equal pay is about family, is about flexibility in the workplace, providing various vehicles for parents to be able to juggle home life as well as their working responsibilities,» he said.

Plus, when surveyed, the women were disproportionately likely to say they cared about flexibility in their jobs whereas men valued salary.

«While a large part of a person's career progression depends on flexibility and job performance,» says Brackett, «it's not always about planning it ahead as much as being open to responding to opportunities.»

When asked about what was important to them about a job, women were more likely than men to say they wanted fewer working hours and flexibility whereas men were more likely to say they wanted higher pay and the freedom to take risks.

«It's all about staffing flexibility,» says Eric Celidonio, a recruiter who works for Altus Pharmaceuticals in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

«It's interesting to think about whether this flexibility may have been adaptive over the course of evolution,» says Turnbaugh.

«The more specific you are about those things, the less flexibility you end up with,» says Williams.

«There's so much area available that there's a lot of flexibility to think about how to do this in the best way for conservation, economic development and other uses,» said Gentry.

The flexibility of the Eng.D., combined with knowledge about a company, gives new employees opportunities to try new things, says Noel Hopkins of Rolls - Royce: «You can make of it what you want.»

«What's neat about this strategy is that you have a lot more diversity and flexibility than other methods to give cells memory,» Khalil says.

But these don't have much to say about the origins of bipedalism, more than 6m years before — they just demonstrate the behavioural flexibility of later hominins.

When people talk or write about Roman Herzog today, they never fail to mention his legendary speech in 1997, in which he said that the Germans needed a «jolt» to leave their comfort zone, and that they had to say goodbye to some aspects of their beloved status quo: «We need more flexibility!

I would have to say the best thing about Rusty's program is the break down of the phases and the flexibility it creates.

«The power and flexibility means that we can focus our efforts on making Tekken 7 the best possible game without worrying about spending time creating a stand - alone graphic engine,» said Katsuhiro Harada, Tekken series Game Director.

In the context of schools, Rose says that while most of us will never need to worry about the flexibility of a fighter plane, we do need to worry about what he calls «the cockpits of our economy» — classrooms.

F40 chair, Councillor Ivan Ould, who is also Lead Member for Children's Services in Leicestershire, said: «Broadly speaking the proposals appear to present a fairer method of funding our schools but f40 will want to carefully assess the full implications, including the issue of local flexibility and details about the transitional arrangements, before responding in detail to the consultation.

With all this said, the learning curve to discovering more about xAPI and the flexibility it has can be a lengthy and sometimes confusing process.

Chris Gabrieli, who directs a Boston nonprofit focused on bringing charter school - like flexibilities to district schools, says the charter bill ideally should be an opportunity to think even more broadly about strategies to help those students.

«I'm perfectly willing to give you (flexibility) because you superintendents know more about where that should go than anybody alive,» Tillman said.

Now that districts have more flexibility in how they use their resources under the Local Control Funding Formula, «we wanted to seize the moment» to steer the conversation about how to reform education toward community schools, Niebuhr said.

«A bipartisan bill will not have everything that everyone wants, but it must build on our common interests: high standards; flexibility for states, school districts and schools; and a more focused federal role that promotes equity, accountability and reform,» U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said in a statement about Harkin's bill Tuesday.

Although to say that the study of the Holocaust is a matter for historians might seem intuitively true, I have maintained at various workshops and meetings about Holocaust education (where I am often among the minority as an English professor) that the flexibility of the English / language arts (ELA) classroom well suits this complex topic.

When asked about charter schools, Vermont's Deputy Secretary of Education said she did not support charter schools saying «No I don't think we need them... The state's longtime tradition of allowing public funding to flow to private, non-religious schools when a community does not have a public school... provides enough flexibility.»

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Somewhat overshadowed by the growing controversy over Mayor - elect Rahm's schools pick, this Tribune story shows the intention of the privatizers not to listen to the research about charters or to the reasonable concerns of interim CPS CEO Terry Mazany, who said about his decision to postpone consideration of new charter contracts at his first board meeting last January: «We simply do not have any budget flexibility to allocate dollars that will not lead directly to improved educational outcomes for all of our students.»

But Platt (pictured top) said schools need to think «very carefully» about what their rules should be, and that heads should build in some flexibility.

«We're hopeful that if they are serious about giving states flexibility and about letting states do what they know is best for their students - that we would be successful,» she said.

They are about the flexibility to innovate,» said Todd Ziebarth, senior vice president for state advocacy and support at the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools.

Asked about the role of independent public charter schools in K - 12 education in Georgia, Governor Deal said, «Innovation, flexibility and accountability are fundamental building blocks to driving student achievement in K - 12 education, and charter schools are catalysts for improvement and reform within a system that has long been burdened by bureaucracy and inflexibility due to top - down control.»

«If Gov. Walker wants to lead a conversation about how to use some of the Common Core's flexibilities to make the standards an even better fit for Wisconsin children, we'd support that,» Brickman said.

«As leaders in Wisconsin education, we are excited about her commitment to sending more power and flexibility back to the states so that we can have a greater say in education policy.

«We have questions about how choice and flexibility will be accompanied by accountability and uniformly high expectations,» Nyamekye said.

«Our issue has been about flexibility and autonomy and having a voice,» said Irene Sumida, executive director of Fenton Avenue Charter School.

«Our proposal would allow manufacturers the flexibility to design different sounds for different makes and models while still providing an opportunity for pedestrians, bicyclists and the visually impaired to detect and recognize a vehicle and make a decision about whether it is safe to cross the street,» said NHTSA Administrator David Strickland.

Speaking about the brand - new plant, Han - Woo Park, president, Kia Motors, said that the new facility will not only provide greater flexibility for Kia's global business but also help sell cars in India, currently the fifth largest market in the world.

«We are excited about this new option, which provides families more flexibility to engage with Sesame Street books,» said Jennifer A. Perry, Vice President of Worldwide Publishing, Sesame Workshop.