Sentences with phrase «weeks off a year»

Next Week: Will TKC staff succeed in their (her, actually) reasonable request for one week off a year?

«I'm a workaholic and only had two weeks off every year, so I was really afraid of being bored,» says Jo - Ann.

My dad worked for Boeing and had two weeks off every year between Christmas and New Year's.

Job Description: How does 17 weeks off a year with no emergency hours or calls sound to you?

She takes 4 weeks off a year, having installed a quarterly vacation policy several years ago.

Not exact matches

Bill Gates goes off the grid for a week every year for deep reflection.

As National Small Business Week kicks off, we gathered some insight from the six finalists in the running to win National Small Business Person of the Year.

Four years later, I got a chance for a do - over when I was laid off from my job when I was nine weeks pregnant with my son Julian.

Malcolm Gladwell set off a mania for practice a few years ago with his book Outliers, in which he argued that to become truly excellent at any skill, you need 10,000 hours of deliberate practice — that's six hours a day, six days a week, over six years of simply sticking with it.

Rather than show her latest spring looks during the recent New York Fashion Week, the 41 - year - old entrepreneur was fending off a lawsuit from her ex-husband and business partner.

Penned by journalist Michael Wolff, also famous for writing a scathing biography about media baron Rupert Murdoch several years ago, Fire and Fury took off like, well, wildfire as soon as word of its imminent publishing broke just a few weeks ago.

The number of Perth - based technology companies pursuing a listing on the ASX this year has hit 10, with Dreamscape Networks due to list in coming days after raising $ 25 million and Secure2Go kicking off its capital raising this week.

It's why Bill Gates reads 50 books every year (roughly one a week) and Mark Zuckerberg kicked off 2015 with the goal of reading one every other week.

Tech giants such as Sony, Samsung and Panasonic along with thousands of smaller consumer - electronics companies descend on Las Vegas for the week, where they'll make arguably some of the largest tech announcements of the year and show off not only what we'll see in stores this year, but what we can expect to see for years to come.

In a random sampling of public opinion taken by the Forum Poll ™ among 1087 Canadians 18 years of age and older, the average amount of vacation time given to employed workers is about 4 weeks (3.7), while the self - employed take a similar amount of time off (4.0 weeks, on average).

For the hardworking employees who haven't taken off some time by a quarter or third of the way through the year, they'll get a week chosen for them when they are simply not allowed to show up at the office.

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With the «holiday season» kicking off earlier and earlier every year, if executed effectively, these handful of weeks can deliver massive financial gains.

The CRTC last year approved a request by Bell Canada to charge its wholesale ISPs based on how much their customers use the Internet, but the firestorm kicked off two weeks ago when the rates were finalized.

A sell - off on Friday left the Dow Jones Industrial Average down more than 260 points for the week and the blue chip index remains down 7 % on the year, while the tech - heavy Nasdaq composite is now off by almost 13 % this year.

Canadian consumer confidence dipped in the two weeks prior to the striking of the deal, according to the new Bloomberg Nanos Canadian Confidence Index, but that was coming off a two - and - half year high at the end of September.

Editor's note: The below is a fictional letter by an imagined banker on how the foreign exchange market looks from London's financial district at the end of a week when the pound slumped to a 31 - year low against the dollar, rounded off by a humiliating «flash crash» of 6 % in overnight trading on Friday.

«Depleting reserves in order to protect the current level of USD / MYR could prove expensive as we head into Fed lift - off later this year,» analysts at Morgan Stanley said in a note last week, noting that the country has among the lowest coverage of external liabilities in Asia.

While Mark Zuckerberg focuses on damage control following the Cambridge Analytica data scandal, his 14 - year - old social network this week kicked off a 30 - city tour for a digital skills training program starting in St. Louis.

When a 17 - year - old Bollywood actress took to social media this week alleging she was sexually assaulted on an airplane, she appeared to catch the airline industry off - guard.

The U.S. market alternated between rebounds and further sell - offs last week before ultimately remaining in the red for the week and the year.

A sharp sell - off in bond markets this week spilled over into global equities with jitters that a near 30 - year run bull run for fixed income could be coming to an end.

In a bid to encourage staffers at the streaming giant to take more time off, Hastings, who serves as Netflix's co-founder and CEO, is hoping to lead by example with his own rather ample vacation allotment: six weeks every year.

Three years later, he held a crusade in New York's Madison Square Garden that was so popular it was extended from six to 16 weeks, capped off with a rally in Times Square that packed Broadway with more than 100,000 people.

The move comes a week after Netflix announced its own groundbreaking parental leave policy, which gives new moms and dads unlimited time off in the year following the birth or adoption of a child.

The S&P 500 had been off 0.7 percent for the week heading into the day's trading, putting it about flat for the year.

Bill Gates is famous for taking a week off twice a year just to reflect deeply without interruption.

When the healthcare workers were charged $ 99 a year for an hour a week of personal training, customers went the first few months but then their usage tended to trail off.

The Saudi exchange has eased off from a more than two - year high hit last week and has been consolidating at current levels.

As the year of the fire monkey kicks off, in this week's Trader Poll, tell us which of the monkey's traits best match your approach.

Within weeks of working with McFarland last year, his team had already begun checking off goals like attaining a new product - quality certification and identifying new lower - cost materials.

After starting the year off with a bang many of the best defense stocks are now down for the year and are trading 15 - 20 % below their 52 - week highs.

In a move that caught everyone off - guard, Canada Post announced a five point â $ œaction planâ $ last week that included phasing - out home delivery of the mail over the next five years, making Canada the only G7 nation to do so.

As noted last week, even with aggressive Fed easing, the entire increase in the monetary base over the last year has been drawn off as currency in circulation, while bank reserves (as well as commercial and industrial loans) have declined.

This week: The year kicks off with a nightmare computer bug and increased scrutiny of YouTube.

With Facebook facing a wave of public backlash over how it has handled user data over the years — a backlash that was kicked off two weeks ago with the revelation that data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica had worked on targeted election campaigns using personal and private Facebook data — the company today announced a new set of changes to help users find and change their privacy settings, as well as download and delete whatever data has been collected through Facebook's network of social media services.

My friend Jabir makes $ 100,000 a year by not only driving ~ 50 hours a week, but also by lending out his second car, a paid off 2012 Honda Civic, to his younger brother and friend for 40 % of their profits.

With Facebook facing a wave of public backlash over how it has handled user data over the years — a backlash that was kicked off two weeks ago with the revelation that data analytics firm Cambri

Everyone who was anyone came to that bash: Mr. Mulroney has been going down to Palm Beach to winter, one week on and one week off, for 20 years.

Similarly, Srivatsa of Blowhorn shared how his firm started off 2016 with just two weeks of capital left in the bank but successfully strove through the year on cash flow, thanks to the core team taking pay cuts and the company cutting down on other costs without a single employee quitting.

The newsletter will return for a couple days next week, Dec. 28 and 29, before being off again for New Year's Day.

«I do think that the industry is off to a good start in terms of good behavior,» Allergan Chief Executive Officer Brent Saunders told investors here this week during J.P. Morgan's annual healthcare conference, the largest industry meeting of the year.

Early this week I was with an Australian government representative in Beijing whom I have known for many years and he told me that iron ore prices were currently around $ 83 (I think they dropped another $ 2 last week), and that while some people in Canberra were reluctant to say it too loudly, he and others were increasingly in agreement with my lower forecast of less than $ 50 well before the end of the decade, in part because supply has come off much more slowly than predicted, but mainly because they now recognize that China's rebalancing was indeed going to be a far bigger deal for Chinese demand than sell - side research had predicted.

If senior managers take off for three or four weeks each year and don't seem to stress over it too much, the people who work for them won't either.

The favorable market performance associated with many historical economic expansions is fully accounted for by 1) favorable post-recession valuations, with the S&P 500 averaging less than 9 times prior peak earnings at the recession low, expanding to just over 11 times peak earnings in the first year of the bull market, and 2) favorable trend uniformity, which typically emerges almost immediately in the form of a powerful breadth thrust off of a bear market low, and is confirmed within a few weeks by much broader trend uniformity.