Sentences with phrase «than an office worker»

This makes purchasing low cost term life insurance more difficult than an office worker such as an accountant, school teacher or insurance agent.

And a factory worker could see different quotes than an office worker.

Their work environment is more like that of a factory worker than an office worker.

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Office workers now receive an average of more than 100 emails per day and spend 6.3 hours checking both their work and personal messages.

He has argued in the past that younger employees are more stimulated by a communal work environment than by the classic, more rigid structure of buildings divided into offices and cubicles, and that major corporations have to adjust in order to keep attracting new workers.

If you have satellite facilities, consider letting the worker set up more than one office.

The company, which already employs more than 40,000 people in Seattle, has been planning a new 17 - storey office tower that would house at least 7,000 new workers.

Not only are these employees less productive than their healthy cubicle neighbors, they run the risk of spreading their illness, leading to an office full of sick workers.

The hiring process for a telecommuter doesn't have to be all that different than vetting an office worker, Fell says.

Although they do appreciate — and expect — more flexibility than older generations of workers, «Millennials and Gen Z value the in - person communication that comes with a traditional corporate office much like older generations do,» Dan Schawbel, Future Workplace's research director, said in a statement.

The total output lost is greater than those figures, however, because office workers typically take around 25 minutes to recover from interruptions before returning to their original task, Nixon says.

Nearly 60 percent of U.S. employees check email regularly, take a work - related phone call or otherwise check in with the office while they are on vacation, according to a new survey of more than 1,000 American workers by Pertino, a cloud - based networking business in Los Gatos, Calif..

Still, he insists that not very much has changed since Trump took office; the wage minimums remain the same, which means that U.S. companies can theoretically onboard foreign employees, who generally are willing to work for lower salaries than U.S. workers.

Research published in the Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment and Health found that open - office workers take roughly 62 percent more sick days than those in single - occupant layouts.

A recent report from the Office for National Statistics in the U.K., which surveyed 2,200 people on age discrimination and prejudice, found that respondents had a more positive view of senior workers than they did of career - hungry 20 - somethings.

Overall, far more workers stuck in cubicles and open office spaces are dissatisfied with their work environments than people in enclosed private offices.

There are certainly no obvious hazards of the kind that are commonplace on construction sites or in factories, and many office workers enjoy the benefits of rigid working days, rather than having their body clocks thrown by changing shift patterns.

Pret, a chain with more than 400 shops worldwide, has built its reputation selling gourmet baguettes and offerings like wild crayfish - and - rocket sandwiches to office workers, and has since embraced health options like dairy - free coconut porridge.

The study analyzed data from employees in seven different office environments, including: «single - room office; shared - room office (2 - 3 workers in the room); small, open - plan office (4 - 9 workers); medium - sized, open - plan office (10 - 24 workers); large, open - plan office (more than 24 workers); flex - office (no individual workspaces); and combi - office (less than 20 percent of the workforce is not at individual workstations, team - based work structure).»

To that end, Maher also runs a program called Recess Tuesdays, where he fills the office plaza with playground toys and workers can take a break to play a bit of tetherball, rather than go for another refill of coffee.

At its peak, in the mid-1970s, Oscar Mayer was Madison's No. 1 private employer, with more than 4,000 workers at its offices and plant at Packers and Commercial avenues.

Today it has workers in more than 40 buildings and occupies one - fifth of Seattle's first - class office space, totaling more than 10 million square feet.

For office workers, data from Mercer's December Quarterly Salary Review show a slight firming in the growth rate of base salaries, to around 4.3 per cent in year - ended terms, compared with slightly less than 4 per cent earlier in 2003.

Since then agriculture, which employs more than 60 percent of the country's population, has stagnated, but the services sector has grown as corporate demand has increased in Europe and America for India's software engineers and English - speaking back - office workers.!

As someone who has been a remote worker (and independent consultant working from home) for the better part of the last 13 years, I can concur with the «I'm more productive sitting in my car for two hours than many are at the office in a full day» thinking.

To make the changes happen, Park District officials will have to persuade Taste of Chicago vendors that relocating the festival south of Balbo Drive — where it would be substantiallyfarther away from thousands of Loop and North Michigan Avenue office workers than the present site — won't pinch their pocketbooks.

Less than a year after it started, the state Office for Information Technology Services has backed away from the outsourcing of its help desk, and will be once again have state workers assume many of those responsibilities.

The firm held these earnings by submitting allegedly falsified workers» timesheets to its payroll processing company with lower weekly hours than the amount laborers actually worked, according to the district attorney's office.

Critics say the tax credit will cost more than Gov. Andrew Cuomo's office estimates, could put some older workers out of jobs, and encourage employers to pay the minimum wage and not a penny more.

The Office of Temporary Assistance and Disability has a budget of $ 5.4 billion and more than 2,000 workers, according to state records.

Hundreds of state workers continued to roast in a downtown office building Tuesday after the cooling system was disconnected amid warmer - than - average temperatures around the Capital Region.

As well as the failure of wages to keep up with prices that has seen the average worker lose # 1,600 in annual income since the Tory - led government took office more workers are worried about losing their job than at any time since these records began.

The budget office found the payment could not offset a lower - than - expected number of public sewer system workers hired by the firm or moving to other county jobs.

Hundreds of state workers continued to roast in a downtown Albany office building yesterday after the cooling system was disconnected amid warmer - than - average temperatures around the Capital Region.

AG Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's office recovered nearly $ 5.7 million in owed pay and damages for more than 3,300 low - wage workers since last Labor Day.

The UNICEF Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, OCHA, says no fewer than four UN aid workers were killed in a Thursday night attack coordinated by...

It will also come days after the New Year's Eve layoffs of more than 900 state workers, an event that union representatives marked with a candlelight vigil on the steps of the Capitol and outside government offices in five other cities.

The comptroller is the sole trustee of a $ 184.5 billion pension fund covering more than 1 million government workers and retirees, and oversees an office with more than 2,600 employees that audits state and local governments, administers state government's $ 15 billion payroll, and reviews contracts and issues debt.

The investigation found that Shankman was not in his Utica offices on more than 150 separate days between January 2015 and August 2017 when he certified he was at the office each of those days overseeing multiple workers» compensation exams, Scott said.

From June 2002 through June 2013, Bloomberg oversaw the loss of more jobs from the ranks of the city's uniformed services than from any other sector — including police officers, firefighters and Department of Education workers, according to a report released Tuesday by the city's Independent Budget Office.

As the Oct. 7 deadline fast approached, educators at almost 350 public schools across New York City prepared themselves and their school communities for the crushing loss of more than 700 school support staff — including school aides, parent coordinators, lunchroom workers, crossing guards and others — who were set to be let go by the city in the largest layoff at a single city agency since Mayor Michael Bloomberg took office in 2002.

Gillibrand's office, citing data from the National Center on Employee Ownership, said workers in ESOPs are paid 5 to 12 percent more, are less likely to be laid off, and have 2.5 times more retirement savings than workers not in such plans.

Whether sweatshop workers in Dhaka, bar girls in Bangkok, office workers in Shanghai, students in Delhi or maids in Caracas, there are more young women than men in almost every city in the world.

Testing pseudo — office workers More than 35 million Americans complain of eye, nose or throat irritation when working indoors, costing the U.S. economy at least $ 20 billion annually in lost productivity.

Grandin's battles in the slaughter industry have nearly all been waged with higher management, not with workers or floor managers, simply because they're office bound, their thinking determined more by the paper that surrounds them than by living animals and working plants.

Research out of the nationwide REasons for Geographic and Racial Differences in Stroke study looked at 5,566 workers age 45 and older identified that those in sales, office support or service occupations have more risk factors for heart disease and stroke than workers in management and professional jobs.

For instance, sleeping less than six hours per night may increase appetite, as some studies suggest, but a sleep - deprived office worker surrounded by fast - food joints is more likely to become obese than a physically active hunter - gatherer faced with a limited food supply.

While previous studies have demonstrated that home workers are more productive than office - based workers, the LSE study of more than 500 employees * shows that on a long term basis, there are no differences between home and office workers.

The UI study says: «Office workers sit more than 80 percent of the workday, placing them at increased risk for many sedentary - related pathologies.»

A healthy highly trained endurance athlete or bodybuilder exercising several hours per day is going to have very different needs and tolerances than a sedentary diabetic overweight office worker.