Sentences with phrase «significant number of staff»

Capcom has laid off a significant number of staff in its Vancouver office as part of a shift that saw the company cancel an unannounced project and cut scope on the next Dead Rising, according to a person familiar with the company as well as various posts on social media.

A significant number of its staff members hail from Big Huge Games and 38 Studios, which went dramatically bust earlier in the year.

The studio has laid off a significant number of staff in recent months.

A significant number of staff are responsible for the smooth functioning and high - class service at Harmony Place Apartments.

Game studio Trendy Entertainment (Dungeon Defenders II) laid off a significant number of staff on Fr

Without a significant number of staff on hand to put in the man - hours necessary to perform regulatory compliance, many of those users are going to be left waiting for a long time before their accounts are active and ready to begin trading.

Google plans to to hire significant numbers of staff and develop new artificial intelligence tools to improve its ability to review «questionable content» after a clash saw major brands including Marks and Spencer and HSBC withdraw advertising from its video sharing site YouTube.

Significant numbers of staff work on external agendas, sometimes linked to training school status, sometimes linked to federations and primary secondary clusters.

Law firms big and small have responded through aggressive cost reductions, including lowering associate salaries and laying off significant numbers of staff.

Not exact matches

Despite NSA quadrupling the number of oversight staff after some significant violations in 2009, the oversteps still increased throughout 2011 and 2012.

There is a finite limit of the number of students and staff that may be reached in significant ways by a university ministry.

Harris explains: «Advances in bottling lines have had a significant impact on the number of employees required to staff the line.

Second, a significant number of MPs receive so - called «uplifts» to their allowances to cover costs related to staff absence (e.g. maternity or long - term sick leave).

This simple numerical comparison (leaving aside other factors affecting the classrooms in Spanish universities such as the large number of students in many centers and the increase in the type of «unquantifiable» work that this generates for teaching staff) shows that the «civil servant professor» has a significant decrease in availability of time for research compared to members of research - only institutes.

Supported by the BFI with Lottery funding, together with funding from the film industry and a number of other sources, Into Film incorporates the legacy and staff of two leading film education charities, FILMCLUB and First Light, building on their experience and success in delivering programmes of significant scale and reach to children and young people across the UK.

While BPS staff has expended significant time and political capital in order to make this limited space available to charters, the district's primary concern is a growing number of young students entering Pre-K programs and elementary schools.

«There are still significant numbers of schools ignoring health and safety provisions and who are not managing their asbestos effectively, putting pupils and staff at risk.

Finally, graduation rates may be depressed by the use of the GED option by a significant number of students, particularly black and Hispanic students, in some cases with encouragement from high school staff.

To be eligible, states had to agree to adopt new common standards and tests (the Common Core State Standards); expand the number of charter schools; evaluate the effectiveness of teachers in significant part by the test scores of their students (and remove any statutory barriers to doing so); and agree to «turn around» their lowest - performing schools by taking such dramatic steps as firing staff and closing the schools.

These charter schools even allow a significant number of uncertified teachers and staff to «educate» the children they claim to serve.

and the work of a number of state - wide efforts to inform state and local officials that they must respect a parent's fundamental right to opt their children out of the Common Core SBAC Test, a significant number of local school superintendents, and their staff, continue to mislead parents, throw up barriers or harass parents into believing that they have lost their right to protect their children from an unfair test that is rigged to ensure that as many as 7 in 10 children fail.

I am considering starting to pull money out of IRA's early because I was fired at 65 (yes, it was called a lay - off, but I know that was only to allow me to pull unemployment, since it was immediate, and I and the CFO had come to loggerheads with respect to his business plan that contained ridiculous revenue and some incorrect numbers - I refused to agree to it, and CEO and I had discussion - he wanted staff consensus, which I could not agree to), and we have significant medical bills.

There was significant miscommunication to the staff and chef regarding the number of guests and our departure date which was quite awkward.

There are further rumors that have emerged surrounding the mistreatment of staff and a number of significant departures.

Irrational Games has begun hiring new staff following a significant number of layoffs earlier in the year.

According to Eurogamer, Playground is hiring on significant numbers of new staff to get ready for full - scale production on the new Fable project (read: don't expect a release date or even an official announcement anytime soon).

I work for Con Edison and Con Edison has a significant number of Cooper Union alumni on staff.

The Grassley staff memo found that the biofuels blending requirement and the cost of Renewable Identification Number credits (RINs), a compliance mechanism designed for flexibility, have little to do with the success of refineries and were not significant factors in the PES bankruptcy.

Given its size and breadth a company like Wesfarmers produces a significant number of NDA documents, which in turn drags on the time of internal executives and inhouse legal staff.

A large firm with significant fixed costs (buildings, insurance, technology and other infrastructure, for example) will find it hard to make a real change to this number without also affecting some of the intangible factors — client experience, staff turnover, etc..

Our initial focus has been on our operations in England which is the location of our largest office with the greatest number of staff and the significant proportion of our business and turnover.

Today Dechert, which laid off 63 lawyers and 62 staff in March, let go a significant number of associates, plus paralegals, staff...

Process Improvement: The Firm has taken significant steps over the years to implement process improvement, including having a number of lawyers and staff with Lean Legal Six Sigma certification.

As a result of mainstreaming ATSIC programs, OIPC lost a significant number of skilled and experienced staff, including Indigenous staff.

Field staff reported during the site visit that the IAP provides a number of significant advantages in their work with intact families, including:

HUD is in the process of hiring 30 new RESPA enforcement staff members and has initiated a significant increase in the number of enforcement actions.