Sentences with phrase «work for every hour of»

When my son started preschool part - time, I could focus on just my work for hours of the day and got more accomplished in two weeks than I had in a year.

3) Plan on about three to four hours of work for every hour of finished audio.

Not exact matches

Twenty miles an hour over the speed limit qualified as reckless driving, so I figured 40 miles an hour over was a one - way ticket to the magistrate's office, a lost license, and months of hassling friends for rides to work.

«Brainjolt was built on the work I did for five years every day between the hours of 4:30 and 7:00 a.m..

A few minutes away from the desk can improve productivity for hours and provide consistent increases to morale worth far more than those few lost minutes of work.

Depriving yourself of sleep occasionally for a few hours to work on a project could be understandable, but it should not become a habit.

Not the get home from work and slump in front of the tube for hours of mindless consumption kind of obsession (that's just numbing out).

«It's about the ease of doing business — I put my inventory on Apex's system, and half an hour later I have sales coming in,» says Snyder, who works for Soma Colorado.

For $ 50, you can get a round trip from the city, but most of the vans make only one trip a day, which means you need to stay for the full eight - hour visit — impossible for many people's work schedulFor $ 50, you can get a round trip from the city, but most of the vans make only one trip a day, which means you need to stay for the full eight - hour visit — impossible for many people's work schedulfor the full eight - hour visit — impossible for many people's work schedulfor many people's work schedules.

You can select a specific day of the month for «personal project» work, an hour or two every week, or simply grant an extra few days of vacation time for employees to use for personal work.

Corporations have reaped profits off the privatization of prisons and prison labor; some prisoners have gotten paid as little as 12 cents an hour, doing work for corporations, like Victoria's Secret and Walmart.

The Taipei - based manufacturer, who also does work for Dell and Hewlett - Packard, suffered a rash of worker suicides and had one worker die after a 34 - hour shift.

Over half of the people surveyed (55.9 %) thought that putting in «an extra 10 hours per week for life» was worth a bump in pay, apparently not realizing that working 25 % more hours for a 10 % bump isn't exactly a good tradeoff.

IT»S a constant dilemma for those working in remote and isolated mining locations; a worker identifies a hazard but it's potentially hours before anyone else is made aware of it.

«The days of working 60 - hour weeks for 30 years at the same company are long gone,» she says.

Experiments in Sweden are proving that giving staff equal pay for fewer hours of work might actually boost productivity

Research from the Center for Creative Leadership shows that the typical smartphone - enabled executive, manager or professional is connected to work on average of 72 hours a week.

You'll save tons of hours of work, it will offer you the opportunity to analyse your strategies for maximum results, it will help you avoid human errors, it's easy to use and it will also allow you to keep monitoring what it's happening with your followers, listen to them, and engage with all of them — no one should be left behind.

It's also a good choice for people who care about the company they support, as Tom's of Maine funnels much of its profits to charities and encourages employees to spend a percentage of their working hours doing volunteer activities.

You just don't have 40 hours of work for them to finish every week.

He has suggested cutting the corporate tax rate from 33 percent to the E.U. average of 25 percent, for example, and wants to loosen national labor laws so companies can have more freedom to negotiate working hours and pay.

If you have all of those things, you can work when it's feasible for you, whether that's in the middle of the day during rush hour, or in the wee hours of the night on a weekend.

If a person is working for 72 of them, and sleeping, eating and bathing for 56, that leaves only 40 hours a week for accomplishing everything else.

In a coworking space, for example, it's easy to join in on topic - specific discussions, head to the gym to work out at any time of the day, grab coffee at all hours, change up your work surrounding, take important calls in sound - blocking rooms and even catch some Z's in a nap closet.

FLSA mandates that non-exempt employees be paid at the rate of 1.5 times the hourly wage for every hour over 40 worked in a week.

So please: for the sake of your work and your own well - being, take a half hour to step away from the keyboard and eat that sandwich outside.

After Handmaker spoke with a consultant, he had his Assurance employees block out a certain number of hours each week for priority - work time.

It's been said that for a neophyte to become a master, it takes ten thousand hours of practice and work.

Nick and Jill moved into a cottage in the redwood forest near Pescadero, where Nick set about working 16 - hour days at the computer and the sewing machine, testing new fabrics for the next - generation product, designing marketing materials, writing patent applications, and starting to build up a network of retailers.

In the same way that companies recognize the need for feedback and professional development, they're noticing the value of flexible hours and remote working.

The research team is worried about what these results might mean for the decision - making of soldiers and police who work odd hours and whose jobs require them to make subtle distinctions between friend and foe, threatening and nonthreatening.

Researchers at the University of Michigan who followed 2,300 adults for up to a decade reported in 2008 that even common work irritants interfere with good rest more than long hours, night shifts or fears about job loss.

Last year, instead of paid time - off, Apple donated $ 50 per hour for volunteer work employees performed as part of its gift matching program.

This was the total of her billable hours for an entire year when she worked as a lawyer.

You've had the experience of recruiting someone to work for $ 8 / hour when they had been a $ 70,000 - a-year employee.»

And that's not including the potential savings from mitigating risk: «If one of our fridge stopped working in the middle of the night for eight hours and someone got sick?

According to a Time profile, «He wakes up at 3:45 every morning («Yes, every morning»), does e-mail for an hour, stealing a march on those lazy East Coasters three time zones ahead of him, then goes to the gym, then Starbucks (for more e-mail), then work.

Given the global nature of the Berrys» businesses, conventional work hours don't exist, so having a cut - off time for answering emails and addressing social media notifications has been an important step toward finding a healthy level of use.

Several high - profile entrepreneurs, such as Basecamp co-founder and CTO David Heinemeier Hansson, have publicly declared that they can get all the work required for their start - up to succeed done in a moderate 40 hours a week, leaving, presumably, enough time for exercise, family, friends, and fitness (or at least more than two of those).

«I'm lucky that my husband has a flexible schedule — one we've shifted to accommodate his love for the early morning hours and my preference to stay in bed... Even if I'm not putting my work at the center of this time, starting out with quiet time always pays dividends later in the day.»

When you think in terms of a 40 - plus - hour workweek in addition to commute time, getting ready for work each day, etc., you suddenly have a wealth of available time during retirement.

Environment takes into account both physical and emotional factors, and the average number of hours worked each week; income considers mid-level salary and growth potential; outlook measures potential for employment growth and income growth, as well as unemployment rates; and stress takes into account 11 different factors including travel, deadlines, and interaction with the public.

«Lots of people set high goals, and, if things don't work out, they may be disappointed for a few hours or a day, but they move on,» Antony says.

Decades of research show that working more than 40 hours a week is unsustainable and severely dents productivity per hour, and neuroscientists and others warn that failing to give your brain adequate time to rest and recuperate is a recipe for disaster (which you might guess that many people have grasped for themselves, given the current mania for «mindfulness»).

Comparing annual work hours in 1979 and 2012, America's overall work hours declined slightly, but saw less of a drop than any country except for Sweden, where hours increased,» reports Max Nisen.

Most operators are on call 24 hours a day, and often work in remote locations for long stretches of time.

In other words, women in Louisiana earn 70 cents for every dollar men in Louisiana make, or they spend 10.5 hours of each 35 - hour work week «working for free,» as Expert Market's research team puts it.

A couple of months ago, an ad for a Woodside, California, group house called Startup Castle drew ridicule for demanding that applicants for its coveted spaces work out at least 15 hours a week, wear makeup no more than twice a week, have no more than one tattoo, and only rarely listen to songs with explicit lyrics.

«For me the hours of 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. are 99 percent work - related,» Weiss says.

The deal also guarantees part - timers a minimum of 15 hours of work after working for one year.