Sentences with phrase «slack time»

If I don't have slack time, I will turn it down — my investment clients come first.

Remember, safety comes first, so only attempt what is safe and build in enough slack time to do each experiment slowly enough to do it well.

Because procrastinators wait to work, when an unexpected assignment becomes a new priority — thanks to, say, a sick coworker — the model procrastinator has no slack time and blows the deadline.

The visitor who allows himself some slack time to wander about, visiting a volcano here, a seacoast there, is taken by the remarkable capacity these small islands have for absorbing almost anything, whether it be a mile - wide stream of hot lava, a tidal wave, an incursion of mongooses and rats or a touring busload of Stetsoned Texans.

I would write only when I was at a position of leisure, whether that be in jail or in slack time — or when I was forced to write because I was hitting the road to give a talk somewhere, at some campus.

The second and more important issue is that Congress has shown itself to be completely incapable of restraining spending during good times to balance off Keynesian stimulus during slack times.

This is family time, Oscar time and action time, not slacker time.

Having spent over 20 years of my career in a seasonal small business, I've learned that taking a strategic approach to managing the business and business finances will not only keep your business cash flow positive during the slack times, it will help you stay focused on your business» long - term financial health when it's flush with cash.

Not exact matches

Slack's chatbot, meant to serve as an office assistant, lets you know its limitations when it doesn't understand something: «Sometimes I have an easier time with a few simple keywords.»

If you look at the company and say «I want us to be a great place to be,» than you need to eliminate the slackers, the laggards and the people who are just putting in his or her time.

It found that social - support providers — those who ask co-workers to lunch, arrange activities in the office and help pick up some of the slack — are 10 times as likely to be engaged at work than introverts and 40 percent more likely to land a promotion.

Spoke can answer employee inquiries via an app, in Slack, or by way of email or text, with the idea being that it will save your employees the time they'd normally spend asking questions or fielding them and keep your office running smoothly.

She continued that nine percent of Slack's engineers are women of color and the company is «the fastest growing enterprise software start up of all time.»

Even President Barack Obama — a slacker until he began running three miles a day as a young man — to this day makes time for 45 minute workouts before assuming his duties.

Now that time has no meaning and you have ample time to slack off, waste a few precious minutes on these panicky mayday tweets.

The biggest time - sucks in my work day are email / slack / social media that break up more important work.

Already, companies that use Slack have employees that spend about 20 percent of their time looking for information or looking for someone who has the information they need.

It's sort of interesting how much time everyone spends reading and writing about the habits of really successful people when I can tell you the one thing that sets them apart in one little phrase: They're not slackers.

Last week, Cal Henderson, the co-founder and CTO at Slack, cast his vote in a U.S. election for the first time.

Minutes before his chairs outburst, he was suggesting a new seating plan for Slack's designers, to reduce competitive time wasting.

And the sad truth, the enormous elephant in the room that nobody wants to see, is that the overwhelming majority of you are never going to get there because you spend way too much of your time slacking off.

If you want to be successful, you've got to quit slacking off all the time.

In June, Butterfield told Fortune's Michal Lev - Ram that the role of Slack — which began as a real - time chat service and now encompasses a range of features for business productivity, wrapped in a consumer - friendly interface — will continue to expand into what he calls a «virtual chief of staff» that could help with functions such as employee feedback.

Despite all the changes in technology and the fact that they should be looking at end products rather than face time, managers still reward the early birds and consider late risers as slackers, regardless of actual work done.

It might seem weird to communicate in real - time with an entire team in an app like Slack or Yammer, but it is more efficient and matches how the workplace has changed.

Any time I'm having a not particularly good day, I can get into that Slack channel and read what our learners are saying about what they're taking from Codecademy and how it is changing their lives.

You might already use Slack or Convo today, two of the most popular apps in this space, but the big news here is that, with a simple click if you're already using Microsoft Office 365 for word processing and email, you can now chat with colleagues, exchange documents, start a Skype phone call, and communicate in real - time.

Real - time communication amplifies everything you do so Slack is ideal for companies that can respond quickly.

Social collaboration tools like HipChat and Slack will become part of more organizations that seek to streamline their communications to save time.

Stewart Butterfield, cofounder of Flickr and chief executive of Slack, one of the fastest - growing business apps of all time, shared his best advice for young people with Adam Bryant of The New York Times:

At the same time, Janet Yellen has said that she's willing to tolerate a period of time in which inflation is above the Fed's 2 % goal, if that stance can help guarantee that slack is eliminated from the labor market and full employment is achieved.

So — if you need one hour of head - down time you can emerge 60 minutes later and find all the Slack messages which were sent your direction.

Fortune's publisher Time Inc. is also a Slack customer.

Slack raised $ 120 million just last October at a $ 1.12 billion valuation and, at the time, didn't even need the money.

It's a time when people are worrying out about Dropbox not being secure and companies like Slack beginning to erode even our loyalty to email.

Start changing the stigma around time off as «slacking off» - in reality, it's the opposite: good for your health and career, and beneficial for your employees and your company.

Earlier this month, rumors surfaced that Slack is raising funding again, this time to the tune of $ 150 million for a valuation of $ 4 billion.

At the time, Slack hadn't even dipped into the $ 120 million it had raised.

Everyone knows that CEO isn't a job for slackers — to be even mediocre at the job you have to be willing to put some serious time and energy into it.

In fact, I've found that slacking off makes me more productive because I slack strategically — meaning that I take breaks at designated times, for regular intervals, in ways that sharpen my focus when I sit back down to work,» she argues, asserting that «strategic slacking has enabled me to dramatically increase both the quality of my work and the amount I get done in a given day.»

Services like Slack and Asana are great resources that I use in Alumnify all the time to be able to access anyone on our team that I need to.

If you've already procrastinated, you're more likely to get started on time going forward if you show yourself some compassion for your previous slacking rather than beating yourself up about it.

Rather than spending time digging through Salesforce to find the answer, you can direct pipeline reports, contact information and activity reminders into your Slack channel with a simple command.

Weeding out slackers like these can obviously save you a ton of time and frustration.

Prior to Slack, the long - time techie had done stints at Twitter and Google.

What's more, the customers who do pay are likely to start spending more and more time on the site once they have, thus making up some of the slack.

At all other times of day, we're basically slacking from our most productive.

But while it can be an efficient way to collaborate, keeping up with Slack can become a full - time task, particularly when you return from a few days away and find thousands of status updates, scattered across dozens of channels.

But if sales teams had done a bit of digging into company data around that time, they would have recognized where Slack was going.

5 of 20 full - time workers in 2008 are out of the workforce, and there is a great amount of labor slack.