Sentences with phrase «times the amount people»

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«Being a people - first organization, a considerable amount of time and energy is spent making sure our people are happy, challenged by their work, and progressing through their careers.»

Despite that, almost every insurance company I talked to was spending an incredible amount of time and money trying to get people to think about their insurance company more often.

There is an ever - increasing amount of people that are using social media as a platform to express their concerns and at times their grievances about products or services.

Are people spending an inordinate amount of time just catching up on email?

At the same time, we're sitting on a gigantic amount of data about how people are using the platform.

«Often there is a very limited amount of time to get the people to the studio and on the air.

Beyond Facebook's scale and the amount of time people spend with it, those in the industry are intrigued by the ability to target ads to the right audience.

In a 564 - person trial, patients whose ovarian cancer recurred (and who had already started treatment with chemotherapy) given Rubraca, part of a new class of cancer drugs called «PARP» inhibitors, lived, on median, for double the amount of time without their disease getting even worse compared with those given a placebo.

«Any contaminated areas would be rendered essentially uninhabitable for that amount of time and people in shelters would not be safe if they returned to the surface for any period of time,» Schwartz said.

Often companies panic when their product is used in unintended ways, and then spend an untold amount of time and money trying to get the «right» people to embrace it.

With over a billion users, Facebook offers an unlimited amount of people to talk to if you take the time to build relationships.

There are all sort of techniques to reduce the amount of time you spend in useless meetings, from team - wide initiatives like having employees «pay» for meetings and simple gizmos that nudge people to use their time more effectively, to personal strategies for winnowing the number of meetings you're obliged to accept.

Most people spend a significant amount of time at their workplace, often about half their waking day or more.

«This is much worse that it's ever been, both in terms of the number of meetings and the amount of time people spend in them,» says Hudson.

It's sensible — everyone knows that a vast amount of hospital time and money is wasted treating people who are not an emergency.

Customers buy three to four times as many books after they buy the Kindle device... That's such a remarkable increase in the amount of book purchasing, it seems pretty likely to be an increase in the rate of which people buy books [over all]... I hear this from people every day, that they're actually recapturing minutes of the day for reading.

These are companies that spend disproportionate amounts of time and money on people.

The amount of ads, offers and promotions that people experience throughout the holiday season is reminiscent of what a person would experience standing in the middle of Times Square for more than 10 weeks.

In any case, it's generally a good investment of the modest amount of time it takes to pay attention and be polite unless the people pitching haven't done their homework, don't appreciate or want to hear about the magnitude or difficulty of what they're setting out to do, or just aren't really prepared to effectively present and defend their ideas.

While the organization as a whole certainly benefits from these realities, we didn't stop tracking time off to reduce the amount of leave people take.

Miller High Life would have to sponsor every person in American four times just to match the amount Bud Light paid to take over the NFL sponsorship in 2011.

People are spending an enormous amount of time each day checking social media.

It is about the joys of spending the small amount of time we have on the planet with the people we love.

Like most people who spend too little time asleep and too much time trying to stay focused on work, I tend to drink a fair amount of coffee.

For example, the partner who runs my global team invests a great amount of time in his people; his door is open to everyone regardless of seniority.

«When vacation time is offered as an unlimited resource many people decide not to take advantage because it's too hard to figure out the right amount to take,» concludes Bailyn.

Senators also spent a significant amount of time reading letters from constituents about the effects of the scandal on their own lives, which not only looks bad for Stumpf and Wells Fargo, but also allows the politicians an easy opportunity to prove that they are working for the people who elect them.

And because of our gender's history we spend a considerable amount of time just trying to measure up to what we think people expect from us.

The reality is, if you're taking advice from these people early on, you're barking up the wrong tree, because that formal plan you're going to spend an inordinate amount of time putting together is going to do more harm than good.

People understand transactions as being a fair trade of value: Something costs me a certain amount of time, money or hassle, and I get some kind of practical or emotional value in return.

«The amount of time people waste dwelling on failures, rather than putting that energy into another project, always amazes me,» the Virgin Group founder and chairman told The Good Entrepreneur.

People can read a man's sexual orientation in a twentieth of a second — the minimum amount of time it takes to consciously recognize a face.

Record - breaking numbers of people downloaded the game, they're spending an equally insane amount of time playing it, and driving a crazy amount of revenue in the process.

While it's clear that people aren't getting married as much as they used to, it's equally obvious that it's still taking them the same amount of time to get sick of each other.

For example, when writing this, we put together a custom report that let them see the average amount of time people from different countries are spending on the Firebrand Group site.

«We could have raised five times the amount of money we ended up raising, just from the people from Zenefits we spoke to,» he added.

But given the amount of time people spend with Facebook, and given how regulators have struggled to keep up with an ever - changing internet landscape, personal due diligence is the most reliable way to make wise decisions about whom to trust.

Unless you're going for a shorter amount of time than the average person, you should delay your benefits, Jones said.

As long as you give, from now on, information that is accurate and set ground rules, people will allow you a certain amount of time to keep quiet.

«I don't believe it will fundamentally change the amount of vacation time people take.

On the other hand, close to as much as 29 times that amount — 1 million people — die of cancer every year from smoking tobacco.

Regular people in the world, right now, they spend a huge amount of time in front of their televisions consuming premium content, some would call it, stuff produced by publishers, networks, studios.

In other words, mobile browsing was simply increasing the amount of time that people spend online.

She points out the discrepancies between the amount of time people claim to spend on work during a week, for example, and the number of hours that studies using time diaries actually show we spend making productive contributions to our jobs.

It wasn't cannibalizing the amount of time people spend on their desktops browsing the Internet.

According to The Wall Street Journal, desktop Internet use had its highest active month over the past three years back in March of 2015 with 567 billion total minutes of measured Web activity in the U.S. Not only have we not seen that figure go up over the past year or so, but the amount of time people are spending browsing the Web on their mobile devices is trouncing desktops: more than one trillion minutes in March of this year.

But to be honest, we've been overwhelmed by the level of interest, by the sheer number of people who want to play and the amount of time they want to play.

Of course, young people are due a certain amount of sympathy for the perennial difficulties involved in getting one's foot in the door of the job market — it's always been hard work finding that first full - time position.

In a short amount of time, both businesses have reshaped how people seek transportation and housing, largely thanks to mobile technology.

Taxpayers must maintain documentation to show the amount, time, date and place of expenditure; business purpose; and business relationship of the persons entertained.