Sentences with phrase «smaller numbers of staff»

In rural schools, distributed leadership may be particularly important, because these schools often have smaller numbers of staff members than urban and suburban schools.

The Prime Minister's Office explained, «Like all families of prime ministers, a small number of staff provide assistance,» and, «Given the nature of the Prime Minister's responsibilities and his young family, the Trudeaus employ two household employees who, in addition to performing other duties around the house, act as secondary caregivers to the three children.»

Because of the small number of staff members employed in this category in each company — a big company might have a dozen people — and because of the specialized knowledge required for the job, these positions generally go to people who already work for the company.

We decided to share the activity of updating the website between a small number of staff, which should avoid one person being left in sole control of updating the website — a huge task for one individual to undertake,» added Angela.

We have a very small number of staff, but they understand that the unauthorized distribution of client's files will result in severe criminal prosecution under existing Thai law.

VHS cares for a large number of animals in a small amount of space with a small number of staff and volunteers.

But the reality is that they have very high teaching loads, and have to manage with a very small number of staff.

Open Enrolment trainings are scheduled for individuals or organisations with a small number of staff to be trained.

The bare furnishings, the small number of staff, the large number of ill patients, shocked me.

Not exact matches

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.

«It's not a huge number, but for a four - day show, with a total booth staff of six, it makes a difference to my small business's bottom line,» says Mojica.

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.

Re-aligning staff with a smaller number of layoffs now is better than not being prepared and facing massive layoffs down the line, he says.

In addition to this public challenge, the company hosts inter-office competitions, breaking their staff of 16 into small groups and tracking the number of employees who cycle to work, offering lunch, a beer or latte to the winning team at the end of the week.

In Indonesia, Uber's local staff reportedly made a number of small payments to police officers to get them to turn a blind eye to the fact that it was operating a support office for local drivers outside the registered business zones of the capital, Jakarta.

Most smaller companies, of course, don't have multiple international accounts or a 15 - person financial staff to crunch numbers.

Yet, a small number of firms are planning staff reductions because of a lack of activity or to achieve productivity gains.

A small number of national churches and synagogues maintain special aging offices, with staffs and budgets, and some of these Orthodox, Jewish, Protestant and Catholic bodies are members of the National Interfaith Coalition on Aging.

They included a small number of manufacturing staff, but mainly involved a 50 % reduction in head office and support teams, following a period of consultation, the organisation said.

The number of total hours provided for sick time decreases with a smaller staff.

«A small number of NHS staff are seconded to suppliers in order to ensure the design and development of computer systems is fully informed by frontline NHS experience,» he said.

Unfortunately for him, this entailed a ballot of university staff, registered alumni and a small number of students in representative positions.

We're developing a new Corruption Prevention Strategy to deal with the small number of corrupt staff who allow contraband in our prisons.

There is anger within the business community because many companies are now able to recruit only small numbers of non-European staff as a result of the coalition government's interim cap on work visas for people entering Britain.

The office, which has always been limited by a small budget and staff, continues to gauge a spacecraft's «bioburden» based on a classic measure — the number of cultivable microbial spores it carries.

With the small number of tenure - track faculty positions available and the large number of Ph.D. holders in career limbo, many are advocating for increased numbers of staff scientist positions.

And a substantial number of scientists and experienced biotech staff available on the job market in RTP have actually been a positive influence on the recruitment effort at about three dozen smaller biotechnology ventures in the region.

The first one is our small staff, which handles an increasing number of grant applications.

For instance, at Chaco Culture National Historical Park in New Mexico, which is a park solely because of its remarkable Native American architecture, the «existing staff numbers are far too small to adequately document and preserve the archaeological sites, and to fully educate the public,» says Stephen Plog, an archaeologist at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, who has studied the Chaco Culture.

* Clarification, 26 September, 11:48 a.m.: The story has been revised to reflect the fact that Oak Ridge officials hope the number of staff reductions will turn out to be smaller than 475.

In response, a number of reform efforts are focusing on creating small schools or schools within schools where students are known and valued as individuals by other students as well as by teachers and staff.

Staff members also cut down on the number of fans and small refrigerators in the building, she added.

This inspirational CPD session is designed for relatively small numbers of teaching staff (between 4 - 16) where focused discussion allows time for staff to reflect on their own practice, and consider strategies that may drive their own practice from good to outstanding.

They shared smaller incentives among large numbers of teachers and principals rather than giving larger awards to the highest - achieving staff.

When the staff of each school district is reviewed, «A» rated districts, on average, employ more teachers as a percentage of their staff than all other districts, while «D» rated districts (the lowest ranking any district is currently rated) employed the smallest number of teachers as a percentage of their staff, according to most recent data available.

Jonathan Morris, the trust's CEO, said the gender pay gap was «merely a statistical measure» and claimed SLT's figures were influenced by its small size, and that it directly employs a large number of female catering staff and learning support assistants, who attract lower salaries.

At the present time, a small number of studies describes how superintendents and their staffs work with state policies and regulations to ensure authentic reflection of such reform efforts while, at the same time, doing justice to local district and school priorities.

POD publishers, who accept almost anything sent to them, have few staff, and rely on selling small numbers of many titles, mainly due to the efforts of the authors.

We have also purchased a limited number of iKits ---- small collections of portable devices including e-readers, tablets, and netbooks ---- and distribute them to library staff in our branches for them to try out, learn, to support customers, and to use as part of their day - to - day work.

Clinicians and staff at Auburn's Wilford and Kate Bailey Small Animal Teaching Hospital treat a number of PDA patients annually.

This is not often feasible in a boarding facility where a large number of animals are under the care of a small staff.

Since the number of staff at most animal shelters are small, set aside time during the week to offer dog walking, running, or playing services, so valuable time is not taken away from the staff.

Friendship hosts One, occasionally two, Friendship hosts are on hand for all holidays featured in this brochure except where local staff fulfil this role on our behalf — In the small number of places where a full time Friendship Travel host is not present, our local agent will provide this sevrice.

The project had to fulfill several criteria: it had to be possible to execute with a small studio and it had to be possible to pull off in a short time with a reasonable number of staff.

We rang in as the smallest game studio featured with a number of staff of just two!

The number of public sceptics who hold tenured chairs in our universities is very small indeed, and I can think of no junior staff member who has ventured a sceptical opinion.

So, in review, the response was that the administrative staff (which may be called «a bureaucracy») is small, and so the remedy suggested in Alex Heyworth's post («my number one priority would be to get the whole issue out of the hands of the bureaucrats») is missing the point, at best.

But I suspect that the online edition is not going to be quite the source that it was, as it cuts back to «20 news - gatherers», a number considerably smaller than the full - time and part - time staff of TreeHugger.

These firms may find it more difficult to spread variability due to a smaller number of attorneys, support staff and clients.

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