Sentences with phrase «while its head count»

Its gross revenue has grown 57 percent since fiscal 2013, while its head count increased 28 percent and its profits per partner rose 43 percent.

Not exact matches

One statistic that underscores the difference in these two business models: GE employs more than 300,000 workers, while Facebook's head count is just under 12,000.

But a number of Inc 500 companies have found ways to keep their head count low while running what are typically more people - intensive manufacturing or service businesses.

Over the last few years, the number of campus recruits coming to Goldman from science - and - technology majors has gone up 5 percent each year, while the total head count has barely budged.

And while GWNFA has complained that head office is not allowing franchisees to raise their price points in response to the minimum wage increase in Ontario, their biggest operating region, head office might fear that «if customer counts are down and franchisees raise their prices to cover the labour cost increase, that will drive more customers away,» Fisher said.

In effect, 3G managed to offload considerable costs, like store renovations, to franchisees, while simultaneously slashing Burger King's corporate head count.

«While others are shrinking their footprints, reducing head count, or trying to save their way to the next quarter, we think there's opportunity for us to take more market share,» says CEO Brian Cornell, who launched the initiative last February.

While Trump bettors are rejoicing and counting their winnings, Clinton bettors are left scratching their heads, wondering how they could have gotten it so wrong.

De Blasio has proposed increasing the number of NYC police officers on the streets — while keeping the police department's overall head count steady — as part of negotiations with the City Council over the budget.

Joseph Gerardi, a Syracuse - area development executive, was found not guilty for his role in the case while Steven Aiello, the head of that firm, Cor Development, was convicted on one count of conspiracy to commit honest services fraud.

The basic exercise of taking three deep breaths while counting to three in your head, then, as you exhale, releasing your shoulders and counting down from three again, is a simple yet effective practice that takes all of five seconds and can be completed while standing in line at the supermarket.

Whether it's a short walk in the park, yoga or walking your dog, do something that will help you clear your head and let you for a while forget about your worries, not to mention thinking about counting reps and sets.

Whitney heads north to San Francisco but fails to leave her girl troubles behind; Romi faces the challenge of her new sobriety while still wrestling with her and Kelsey's sexual issues; Sajdah's relationship with Chanel proceeds rapidly; Kacy and Cori find a sperm donor online; Francine counts the days until Claire moves out - and so does Claire, who is eager to leave.

One student could compute multiplication with 4 - digit products in his head, while others still counted on their fingers.

Asked about the changes in the 2015 model, a Honda spokesman said, «While Display Audio reduces button / knob count on the head unit, most audio system selections and adjustments can be made via steering wheel controls, while the driver has both hands on the wheel.&rWhile Display Audio reduces button / knob count on the head unit, most audio system selections and adjustments can be made via steering wheel controls, while the driver has both hands on the wheel.&rwhile the driver has both hands on the wheel.»

This new smartphone will sport 512 MB RAM which is much more than the BlackBerry Bold 9700 while retaining the QWERTY keyboard that has proved to stand head above shoulders compared to the other smartphones in the market (virtual QWERTY keyboards don't count...).

Investors — at least those who are counting on timing to protect them — don't like to sit idly and lose money while they wait for their system to recognize «what any idiot can see,» that the market is heading down.

As a person in your 20s or early 30s, you have one, count it, one strategy to secure a reasonably safe and secure retirement, and that is to live like an anchorite from the time you begin working to the time your career superannuates you into oblivion, and during that productive period to save and invest every penny you can while paying off the roof over your head and avoiding all other kinds of debt.

Clearly, I was wrong to speculate FDP's consulting business * might eventually grind to a halt — as banks continue to retrench, we're actually seeing an increasing reliance on IT outsourcing, while reduced head - count & market evolution demanded ever greater technology capacity & automation.

While Ryanair can be counted on to produce relentless passenger growth (running at 3 - 6 % yoy right now), its fares & yields are the bane of investors» lives — they're often heading in the opposite direction.

Saw midnight then one «fore I climbed into bed, While view counts and bar charts danc'd round in my head, My computer is hot as it rests on my lap, Just one more draft — must... say... no..

We opted to surf out the front of the original car park seeing as though there were only half a dozen surfers on it, while up on the main break there was a record 46 surfers on my head count.

Creatures When dropping Toki in a nest, birds now have a «cooldown», so they won't instantly pick you up again when walking out of the nest Birds don't stop anymore when they sense vibration, making them less annoying when accidentically stomping near them No more random sorting of creatures: they all appear on their assigned depth value, preventing smaller creatures from sometimes getting lost behind bigger creatures Fixed the «spawning multiple camera birds» bug Slug corpses can't kill anymore, so no more accidentally walking into them and dying Bugs When stomped, berrybugs and copybugs now always hop the same distance (3 tiles), making their behavior more predictible Berrybugs now briefly stop if they detect an edge above their heads while walking on the floor, making it easier to stomp them onto a wall Copybugs and berrybugs get stunned when they're in the trajectory of a to be spawned bubble, so they can't hop / roll away before bubble is spawned Glowy berrybugs now use the same turn animation as normal berrybugs, so no more faster glow bugs Frogs and bubbles Bubbles now prioritize Toki Tori over other entities, so no more accidental berrybug ballooning Added a small delay before catching an entity in a bubble to allow for catching Toki Tori, even if he's a little further away than an entity Added possibility to queue a «turn by whistle» while the frog is running towards a berrybug, so you don't have to wait before being able to let the frog face the desired direction Fixed a problem where a fat frog won't belch anymore Achievements In - menu achievements system, including progress achievements Added a number of new achievements Tokidex completion is now a progress achievement (you can see how far along you are) Fixed the Fried Chicken achievement, so it's less hard to get All electrocuted entities now count for the X-Ray Enthusiast achievement Menu Completely new, streamlined and fast to access menu system Ability to set language from menu New font Graphics Improved presentation of telepathic Ancient Frog messages, fixed a problem where sometimes they'd spawn multiple times Fixed black flickering when buttonbashing during fades and level transitions Screenfades are now 100 % black Added button prompts to the first time you need to use whistle and stomp Areas and puzzles Added l - ife area for Ife < 3 Added an extra landing stone in the wasteland area Added more snow globes: — RRB - Water mountain approach: berrybug in the «pro» puzzle can no longer be lost Water mountain top: frog for Ancient Frog puzzle now starts bloated, added light to make «pro» puzzle easier to execute Shaft top: Small tweak to make sure berrybug isn't killed by the slugs midway through the level Water cave: made the light shaft where you need to whistle the hermit crab a bit wider, created hole for frogs at end of level to prevent them from falling down, made some «pro» puzzles a bit more forgiving Dark forest: lowered warp when entering dark area, so it's easier to travel up with a bubble Lava cave: improved bat puzzle Meadow: made some pro puzzles less difficult Hideout: removed alternative solution for Ancient Frog puzzle Descent: made it easier to pick up fat frog at beginning

Had a personal encounter with a rare baby snake making its way inside my sleeve outside my office while this character was absorbed in describing the projects he undertook, some paid - most unpaid, doing surveys and head counts and relocations for wildlife bodies and for exploration companies.

I have come to feel that while law departments operate under head count straitjackets, while base compensation soars up to 2.75 percent each year, while promotion opportunities come about infrequently, why not stroke people with titles?»

While head - on collisions count for only about two percent of all accidents, they often cause as much as ten percent of all car accident fatalities.

Head count constraints are common, while reports are showing in - house counsel workloads becoming overwhelming, leading to stress and burnout that ultimately decrease productivity.

Some offices are reducing spending or head count, while others are targeting «soft cost savings» like focusing on increasing efficiency and productivity.

Plus while you're driving along at 65 mph is hardly the time to count «car lengths» and doing multiplication in your head.

To create necessary operational cost - savings, reduced staff head count and closed down operations in one city while implementing a wage roll back.

While we can still expect to see fluctuations in the job counts, the industry appears to be headed in a positive direction overall.

i can count 4 instances off the top of my head within the past 30 days in which someone told me: «the numbers look good, the location is good, etc., but since it's been on market for a while and / or failed an inspection or feasibility i'm not interested.

By far, the greatest challenge for most brokerages is balancing the effort to increase head count while signing only the most potentially productive salespeople.

I can't count the number of times I played blocks or even read books (that I could recite from memory they were so often chosen) while making a grocery list or to - do list in my head, for example.