Sentences with phrase «staff time on»

Smokeball will turn that into an hourly rate and then, thanks to TimeScribe, allow you to assess if you are spending too much staff time on a matter.

In light of this, and the growing demand for staff time on more public - facing digital initiatives, the Courthouse Libraries made a change to their strategic direction.

The biggest problem is not finding the right member of staff: spending large sums on advertising, staff time on short listing and interviewing, only to discover that no suitable candidates were available.

One key organizational change was the creation of a chronic disease bureau, focusing attention and staff time on the conditions — such obesity and heart and respiratory disease — that were threatening New Yorkers» lives and health.

Not exact matches

The most talked - about media response to Wolf's performance came from New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman, who has risen in the public eye by providing often - unflattering insights on the president and his staff.

By avoiding the task of employing extra staff members or handling operations such as payroll and web development, employees at a company will also be able to free up more time to focus on delivering their goods to their customers and carrying out the tasks that they were employed for in the first place.

Hiring freelancers and part - timers can be cost effective, efficient and less stressful that taking on full - time staff.

A monitor in the centre of the room acts as a digital scoreboard, ranking staff in real time on the quantity of articles they've written, the amount of online traction their work is getting and how much it's being shared on social media.

It is not unusual for a president's staff to tell reporters to focus on some facts and not others, but things are qualitatively different now in the Trump administration compared to that of his predecessors Barack Obama and George W. Bush in terms of «the number of untruths,» said the Times «David Leonhardt.

In order to meet their tax obligations, the 89 companies surveyed hire 19 full - time equivalent staff and spend, on average, $ 3.96 million annually to comply with Canadian tax legislation.

You can also send an employee handbook ahead of time, so that new staff members aren't overwhelmed with information on the first day.

Seven are on - staff with full benefits, two are part time, and three provide services on a contract basis.

If work is completed, clients are serviced and issues are resolved, managers should be encouraging staff to have a life outside of work and leave on time or occasionally early.

The staff had worked late on an issue, pulling together an ambitious editorial package and launching a whole new section without enough time for either.

Companies are placing more value on training and retaining staff by establishing a professional development budget, offering time off for education, or setting up in - house training on new tools and concepts.

Entrepreneurs gamble every time they take on new staff.

It opened full - time in December of last year — a floor - through, gut - renovated homage to millennial pink: pink - and - white packaged products arranged on pink lacquered displays, pale - pink - subway - tiled walls, staff dressed in pink mechanics» jumpsuits, fresh - cut pink and white flowers and flattering lighting.

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.

Another downside to Twitter's real - time character is that it requires dedicated staff to engage with the account's audience for hours on end.

Other suggestions like declaring one day of the week a meeting - free day offers staff uninterrupted time where others can count on them to be available.

Being able to use some of the structures you already have in place is a great way to save time and money, not only on implementation but training of key staff as well.

The amount they pay is far less than what it would cost to have those resources on staff full time.

This spring, he spent two weeks running the numbers and battling insomnia before making a dramatic announcement to his 120 - member staff on April 13, inviting NBC News and The New York Times to cover it: Over the next three years, he will phase in a minimum wage of $ 70,000 at Gravity and immediately cut his own salary from $ 1.1 million to $ 70,000 to help fund it.

MobileLive's scalable, modular design and development approach keeps prices relatively low, and staff spend considerable time on - site in order to clearly understand what customers want and need.

Most importantly, top executives will need to learn to rely on machines to make some real - time decisions (where to allocate store staff or when to slow down an assembly line, for example) and to harness data for their own decision making.

To sustain a startup - like attitude, in 2009 the Henderson, Nev. - based e-commerce giant launched Zappos Labs, a San Francisco division staffed with 11 full - time employees dedicated to exploring what consumers want out of their shopping experiences, then creating new ways for them to engage on the main site.

«We have 1,600 full - time IT professionals on staff, including over 100 big data scientists.

Previously, staff would track their time on a piece of paper — and with numerous clients, they might be working on five to seven projects a day — and then Atchison would enter those hours into QuickBooks manually, an onerous process.

But he said staff should «stay vigilant,» and, as part of a crackdown on unecessary meetings, save time where possible.

MAD also dispatches its own staff to go to work sites and do all the measurements themselves, instead of relying on the contractor's staff; that way, the order is more likely to be done correctly the first time.

As someone who used to manage a small staff, she knows perfectionism from both sides, and has learned that getting the most out of perfectionists requires putting restrictions on their ability to be perfect, such as a time frame.

Ground staff at Berlin's two airports have gone on strike for the second time in four days, forcing the cancellation of hundreds of flights.

While the owner is ready to turn the page on this portion of her career, her staff of six part - timers and one full - time store manager would prefer not to be shelved.

Chevalier advises managers to link newcomers with exemplary employees; otherwise, they might gravitate to staff who have time on their hands — the ones doing nothing.

The latest science on how habits are formed, and broken, according to New York Times staff writer and author of The Power of Habit, Charles Duhigg, involves routines and rewards.

The professors cite a study of 10,000 World Bank employees, which found that the business travelers on the staff — roughly 40 percent of the group — were three times as likely to file psychological insurance claims.

We now have full - time coaches on our staff and anybody who manages people can see one.

With 85 full time staff, Linear expands, in any one month, to 120 — 140 on the payroll when more doctors, nurses, lab technicians and IT specialists are needed to run the 24 hour operation.

«Some of what they're doing borders on the edge of magic,» Gene Russianoff, the staff lawyer for a subway rider advocacy group, told the New York Times» Matt Flegenheimer.

«When you have loyal employees who have been with the company for a long time, you have the original spirit that was there when the company started,» explains Lin, who has seen only six employees on his 100 - person staff leave in the last seven years.

It gives you and the rest of your staff something to strive for and refer to during challenging times and helps ensure everyone is on the same page and working toward the same vision.

Of course, it varies from company to company, but answering some fundamental questions may indicate it's time to offload the work from an accounting firm and load it on a new staff member.

She and her staff spent considerable «therapy» time on the telephone while customers» employees voiced their worries about being laid off.

«We literally had to close for a week, change, and renovate to make it so cut - and - dry that (my staff) wouldn't have to deal with people feeling entitled and giving them a hard time,» says Gallagher, who also trained his staff on how to enforce the new limits.

When I Work offers mobile accessibility so that staff can see their schedules, trade shifts among themselves and request time off while on - the - go.

For companies that have an especially hard time replacing staff on leave, there can be an inclination, as the Alberta survey suggested, to simply avoid hiring young women or, worse, to fire them before their maternity leave kicks in.

A key benefit of hiring a freelancer is that it frees up time for full - time staff to focus on the big picture and efforts that can move the business to the next level.

Now the company has four full - time employees and recently closed on a seed round that allowed Herrera to expand staff and inventory and launch a mobile app.

Retailers also have become more efficient at scheduling more workers to be on duty during times when consumer traffic peaks, and reducing staff during slower periods.

«The world has opened up to the idea that if you can put a good team together, it doesn't really matter whether they're on staff or where they work,» he says, adding: «What I realized is there are so many people out there who don't want a full - time job.»