Sentences with phrase «so on company time»

For example, even though employees are well within their rights to send emails or text messages of a sexual nature while at home, doing so on company time and / or using your company's Internet connection could potentially make your business vulnerable to sexual harassment claims.

You want to do so on company time (but if it's a good one and runs into your weekend, that's fine too).

Not exact matches

Once a modest - size Medicaid provider, the managed - care company has expanded quickly — vaulting from No. 453 to 66 on the Fortune 500 in five years» time — and it has done so, in part, by entering markets that rivals have fled (Medicare Advantage, prison health care, the precarious Obama - care exchanges).

One of the developers at collaboration software company Bluebeam is especially notorious for hoarding web pages, so one time while he was on vacation, his co-workers printed out hundreds of images of tabs and wallpapered his cubicle with them.

He realized it was time to bring a business person in to focus on growing the company and let him return to testing the product: «We want to make sure the Nymi wristband is very user - friendly so people would enjoy using it once it launches.»

«The orientation should begin at the first click of the mouse when someone first goes on the company's website, so by the time the person comes in for the interview, they already know quite a lot about the organization,» says Richard Jordan, a business coach who has been responsible for reshaping the recruiting and orientation process at a number of technology firms.

I frequently speak about this when I lecture on college campuses, but even if you are not a full - time employee at a major company, internships will get you so much farther than any book you read or class you take.

Doing so, the company says, will speed up loading times, which is vital on mobile phones.

He also said he still wasn't on speaking terms with Kalanick at the time, due to something «wholly unrelated» to the company's recent sexual harassment scandals, so the two appear to have made up since then.

These risks and uncertainties include, among others: the unfavorable outcome of litigation, including so - called «Paragraph IV» litigation and other patent litigation, related to any of our products or products using our proprietary technologies, which may lead to competition from generic drug manufacturers; data from clinical trials may be interpreted by the FDA in different ways than we interpret it; the FDA may not agree with our regulatory approval strategies or components of our filings for our products, including our clinical trial designs, conduct and methodologies and, for ALKS 5461, evidence of efficacy and adequacy of bridging to buprenorphine; clinical development activities may not be completed on time or at all; the results of our clinical development activities may not be positive, or predictive of real - world results or of results in subsequent clinical trials; regulatory submissions may not occur or be submitted in a timely manner; the company and its licensees may not be able to continue to successfully commercialize their products; there may be a reduction in payment rate or reimbursement for the company's products or an increase in the company's financial obligations to governmental payers; the FDA or regulatory authorities outside the U.S. may make adverse decisions regarding the company's products; the company's products may prove difficult to manufacture, be precluded from commercialization by the proprietary rights of third parties, or have unintended side effects, adverse reactions or incidents of misuse; and those risks and uncertainties described under the heading «Risk Factors» in the company's most recent Annual Report on Form 10 - K and in subsequent filings made by the company with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission («SEC»), which are available on the SEC's website at www.sec.gov.

Mark Gordon, who is so sold on the Predictive Index that at all times he carries minigraphs of the test results from each of his staff members, says the testing came in particularly handy when, in late 1996, he merged with a network - cabling company.

The company showed off early prototypes at last year's show, so this year we'll be getting much more detail as well as, I'm sure, some hands - on time.

The pair's solutions to the alleged problems of CEO - speak are greater government control of markets, more bureaucracy in the private and public sectors, an end to CEOs» duty of care to shareholders and — get this — more snore - inducing courses on critical textual analysis in business schools so students can know exactly how many times a CEO says «our company» versus «the company.»

«A mutual friend introduced us, and so I went to his office and pitched him on my company at the time, Intermix.

But doing business with that company still makes sense because Peachtree shows its inventory turning far faster than others, explains Garrett, so Triad gets a return on the same dollar invested more times a year than with other lines.

The company claims its service conserves one gallon of fuel per idling hour per truck, and with more than one million truckers on the road at any given time, the savings add up — so far, says Wilson, eight million gallons of fuel have been saved, 83,000 metric tons of emissions have been eliminated, and 150,000 road cowboys have plugged in.

This system has never made me pass up an opportunity — in fact, it's helped me strengthen my cash flow so much that I've been able to contemplate all kinds of growth options, including a recent $ 325,000 bid on a bankrupt company whose assets were worth nearly 10 times that much.»

Although I know these things exist but I haven't really had time to grow my Instagram account so that companies can be paying to get a mention on my page.

«At the time, it was a huge portion of her net worth, so she was really taking a big leap on me,» says Hague, who was eight months out of York University's Schulich School of Business when she started the company.

While companies can hire temporary customer - support reps, they'll need some time to be trained on the products, services and the way the business works so the quality of support doesn't suffer.

Moritz, a former Time magazine journalist, went on to lament the lower numbers of women studying math and sciences as the reason why it's so difficult for the firm to hire more women — a popular excuse often used by the tech companies with low diversity numbers.

Ellison, who before the crash, was known to brag about playing tennis on company time, and was so seldom at the office that, when he was spotted, employees joked about «Elvis sightings,» was shaken to the core.

A good PR company is worth its weight in gold, so it pays dividends to do your due diligence when it comes time to bring one on board.

In other words, while you may expect someone within your company to respond to a message immediately, an external partner may be working on something else at the moment so it's important to establish your expectations about response times up front.

Companies like TaskRabbit, which now has 35 employees, don't have the resources to bring on a full - time human resources staffer, so they need to get creative when they want to grow.

On Tuesday, Atlassian (TEAM) released its demographic breakdown for the company's workforce, its first time doing so.

So if you can't build a cash reserve, at least do the homework when your company's not on thin ice to identify the people or institutions you might be able to turn to in leaner times.

But that stat crashes into another one: That people spend most of their time on smartphones within specific apps — so much that app usage now represents 86 % of time spent on mobile, according to analytic company Flurry.

So they spend their time focused on the things they can control (and «improve») like access, speed and response times even if the net effect is to increase the company's exposure to external threats.

Intel and other companies were scrambling to fix the problem before word got out, the New York Times reports, but news of the vulnerability was reported by The Register on Tuesday, so the companies and researchers rushed to release information about it on Wednesday.

The company's current solution is to cut back on production for some items and hire more salespeople to improve in - store displays for its cereals — presumably so Americans will have a harder time ignoring the desperate cries of Snap, Crackle, and Pop on the way to get some Chobani.

Burlington, Massachusetts - based company, which employs about 150 people full time, has focused on the U.S. market so far.

And then there's Mountain Equipment Co-op, a company with staff who are already so focused on physical activity, spokesman Andrew Sutherland has a hard time naming everything they do on site at MEC's new corporate headquarters.

I was the last on the panel to respond so I had time to really reflect on the question and on the early days of my company, Work Market.

The company was able to pass much of the costs on to consumers, but doing so simply created yet another incentive for shoppers to look for alternatives, especially at a time many are turning away from the kinds of processed foods Kraft produces.

Many companies don't have enough blockchain - related work to justify hiring a full - time employee, so being able to tap into the talent available on Gigster is handy, he said.

I had spent so much time building my business on the ground level that I had created a company that could not survive without me.

But one reason our bank knows it's not true is because we've been able to spend so much time educating the people connected with our account about what's really going on and where the opportunities lie for our company, regardless of the downturn in the economy or changes in our industry,» he says.

So the fact that Tesla, one of several innovative companies that Musk is juggling, is now a newly minted member of the 500 Club — arriving for the first time this year on Fortune's annual register of the biggest U.S. companies — might strike some as a curious, if marvelous, oddity: the brash, antiestablishment carmaker parked in one of the reserved spaces for America's corporate elite.

So make sure whatever you settle on doesn't get stale over time, and you can continually be happy saying, «Hi, I'm Saucey with XYZ company» and this is what I do.

Even though it will earn substantial fees from doing so, an underwriter will take a company public only once; it counts on institutional investors to buy its issues time and time again.

However, there are reports that the GOP's newest plan is a so - called «skinny repeal» — legislation that would undo: Obamacare's individual mandate requiring people to carry health insurance or pay a penalty; a mandate on employers to cover full time workers; and a tax on medical device companies.

At a time of great debate over employee pay, corporate responsibility and the impact of workplaces on corporate growth, it was great to see that so many companies, varied in size, industry and lifespan, believed not only in their products and services, but also in their culture.

It may seem like Gannett's attempt to acquire Tronc — the newspaper company formerly known as Tribune Publishing — has been going on forever, but that's probably because it has died and been revived so many times it's difficult to keep track.

When a business owner buys a fixed asset, that asset loses its value over time, and so its most current value must be accounted for on the company's balance sheet.

Everyone has access to this service either through their insurance company or with telehealth providers like American Well, so why waste money and time on an in - person doctor visit when you can improve your health at a lower cost in the comfort of your own home?

So if a VC rejects you on the grounds of a «competing portfolio company», don't waste your time feeling bad.

At the time of this video, Travis notes that more than 600 black cars were active on Uber and the company was still growing at 20 % month over month (at the time, UberX had just launched, so Uber's fleet was all black cars).

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Then, on top of that, you increasingly have brand advertising dollars — also an order of magnitude more than direct response dollars — looking for somewhere to go other than TV, and it just so happens that Facebook is the perfect brand advertising platform.2 The company has the right set of products in the right market at the right time.