Don't
use company time and resources for your job hunt.
Ensuring that employees are
using company time and resources properly and productively is only part of the concern; liability abounds.
From potential conflicts of interest to exposing your employer to malpractice to dealing with accusations of
using company time for your benefit, running a law firm on the side is never a good idea.
Somewhere there's an employee who doesn't slack off, wouldn't think of
using company time to play fantasy football or watch cats twerking on Vine, and never takes personal days to hit smoke - filled raves or Flat Earth Society meet - ups.
Instead of
using company time to plan personal events, consider taking a PTO day or two to wholeheartedly tackle your holiday preparations.
Not exact matches
Small
companies keep innovation at the very heart of their goings - on,
using it to propel their business into the limelight, yet at the same
time remaining sensitive to the needs and wants of their consumers.
«Frankly saving space and
time,» were the most important considerations in the
company's efforts to reduce paper
use, project manager Kip Kypuros explains, but this «coincidentally works with the industry and national «green» buzz.»
«Windward is a
company I have admired for a long
time: for its vision; for the way it collaborates with organizations to solve real - world problems; and for
using its technology to make the world - and the oceans - safer.
SMS was currently
using overtime to keep up, he said, but with orders for 2012 dropping to $ 3 billion, capacity utilization will fade, and the
company might have to shift to part -
time work (Kurzarbeit) next year.
Clothing manufacturers can face significant tariffs when importing raw materials, and a
company wishing to
use the Textile Tariff Reference for tariff relief can face a 6 - 8 month waiting
time and legal costs of up to $ 75,000... Clothing manufacturing is not the only manufacturing subsector still subject to import tariffs.
-- Daniel Putterman, cofounder, co-CEO, and head of business for Kogniz, Inc. which recently released AICam, fully - autonomous surveillance cameras with artificial intelligence that identify people and threats in real -
time,
using video - based facial recognition and object detection; also having founded and run venture - backed technology
companies over the last 20 years including MaxInfo, Inc. (acquired by NETM), EoExchange (S - 1), Mediabolic, Inc. (acquired by ROVI), and Cloud Engines, Inc..
CVS Health CEO Larry Merlo said that, «[I] t's really the perfect
time to bring these two
companies together, to create a new healthcare platform that can be easier to
use and less expensive for consumers, and really create a new front door to healthcare in our country.»
The
company still
uses the technique, offering everything from free reusable grocery bags to magazine subscriptions to customers who mail in UPCs from boxes of Jolly
Time.
Playing the hand I was dealt, I began with the vanilla employee survey
used by my
company at the
time.
Enterprises have known and leveraged this
time and
time again, from
companies like Amazon, who designed the simplicity of 1 - Click Shopping, to Apple, who figured out how to make
using smartphones an enjoyable experience.
I
used to have a business associate, a key person in my
company, a $ 100,000 - a-year guy whose
time had to be worth more than $ 250 an hour.
Every
time someone posts
using your hashtag they are exposing all of their followers to your
company and product (s)-- free advertising!
The most common problem when hiring freelancers is a lack of information within the
company about the past relationship with their freelancers; who the
company used for the particular type of project, or how the freelancer performed previously — did the freelancer deliver work on
time, did they go over budget etc..
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.»
Around the same
time as his graduation from engineering at the University of British Columbia, he sold the
company — a system that
uses high - speed imaging to scan for defects in packaging — he'd founded as a student.
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company's web site without securing prior written permission.
Twitter said it is «taking action» against 10
times more abusive accounts than it was at the same
time last year, which means the
company is levying account suspensions — or, limiting users» ability to
use the service — on «thousands more abusive accounts» per day.
While the partnering
companies are
using the shipping industry as a start, Gault and EY's Crawford have plans to expand the platform to other categories of insurance, like automotive, in due
time.
It's a questions
time use expert and author Laura Vanderkam tackled recently in a thoughtful Fast
Company piece.
During the podcast, Aiyer explained that Postmates had actually seen its retail partners increase their sales three to four
times over their previous level once it — the
company — started
using on - demand delivery.
Still, the software has been
used for a very long
time and the ban does not affect independent businesses and
companies, who can still choose to
use any software they prefer.
As I am currently in the process of designing an email newsletter to begin
using with my
company, this advice comes at a great
time.
Perth - based data management
company Tape Ark has completed a world first for the oil and gas exploration industry by demonstrating real -
time seismic data acquisition
using cloud storage rather than traditional tapes.
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.
energy -
company incentives that pay customers to
use less energy (i.e. turn off the air condioner) during peak
times.
According to a New York
Times report, Honda, one of the
companies using the bags, and Takata knew about the dangerous airbags for years before disclosing it to the public and issuing recalls.
(If you
use the ratio of market cap to sales, Snap is still valued at nearly 28
times sales — far more than its tech
company peers.)
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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.
Currently, the
company is trading at about 25
times earnings and with a long - term earnings per share growth rate of about 15 %, its price - to - earnings to growth ratio — a metric
used to value fast growing
companies — is about 1.4.
Galimberti said there's some comfort in Canada being exempt, especially since at
times it didn't look like it was going to happen, but overall
companies are having to get
used to the new reality of unpredictability.
Pickup boasts that the
company has significantly increased the amount of composite
used each
time it has launched an airliner program.
Fulcrum BioEnergy CEO James Macias told Fortune that the
company spent a lot of
time and effort making sure the North Carolina facility would
use the exact same production process as the Nevada plant, showing the factory could run continuously and reliably.
In a sport rooted in the hard - partying fringe of Southern California, Hawk was something different: While he was still in high school, he
used his winnings to buy a house in Carlsbad, and a few years later, he started his first
company — Birdhouse — even though the skateboard industry was tanking at the
time.
In the future,
companies may
use mobile apps to place inventory orders with nearby distributors and watch the delivery vehicle restock the product in real
time via smartphone.
Facebook employees have already been
using the site for some
time, but «Facebook for Work» «is now being tested with
companies as its launch approaches,» the FT reports.
«I don't know what the board was thinking putting a half -
time CEO in, but if your
company can not grow in a
time of political upheaval, you have a reality TV president
using it and is going completely rogue on the platform, then you will never grow,,» he said.
The amount of
times I hear that a
company only
uses social media because they think they ought to has diminished over the years, but there are still some out there who don't get that digital is here to stay, and therefore fail to embed it deeply in their future plans.
Roger Chevalier, a California — based management consultant, says most of the
companies he works with combine sick with personal days, trusting the employees will
use the
time when they need it.
The peer evaluations can be submitted to members of the management team at any
time,
using the
company's internal directory.
When asked whether Google would prioritize AMPed news articles in its search rankings in the coming year, Google product manager Rudy Galfi said that the
company will
use webpage load
times as one of many criteria to determine rankings.
«Oftentimes the
company will just have an answering machine in human resources with a dedicated phone number, but 90 percent of the
time it's ineffective and employees don't
use it,» says George Ramos, a managing partner and senior executive investigator at Diversified Risk Management (DRM), a Downey, California - based firm that handles corporate security and investigations.
He adds that
companies often misread how — and, indeed, whether — their clients
use social, causing them to spend
time and money chasing business that might never materialize.
Already,
companies that
use Slack have employees that spend about 20 percent of their
time looking for information or looking for someone who has the information they need.
I was living in an RV when I first started my
company, my husband at the
time and I were sharing a laptop computer and my blood
used to boil when it was his turn to
use it.
Temps make it easier to downsize because
companies can just start
using less of them instead of laying off full -
time employees.