Sentences with phrase «work for hours on»

The other side of training a rescue dog is the need for the handler to be in excellent physical condition as they have to keep up to their dog and be able to work for hours on end.

Doing focused work for hours on end can increase eye strain and decrease our overall ability to change focus.

Plus I can get caught up working for hours on tiny details on my sites that nobody probably notices apart from myself!

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

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

«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.

Or, work with individual employees to set schedules that work for them — maybe they work four 10 - hour days or start at different times on Mondays and Wednesdays etc..

«I try to make sure as soon as I get to work, I make progress on those at least for an hour before I look at my emails.»

TSB Chief Executive Officer Paul Pester said he had worked for 48 hours to fix the problem but that the bank had to take down both the mobile app and online banking again on Tuesday.

If you use a smartphone, the numbers are bleaker still — you're tethered to work for 13.5 hours a day, with another five hours spent emailing on weekends, according to a 2012 survey from the Center for Creative Leadership.

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.

Once again, Anzor worked as a mechanic, often fixing cars on the street for $ 10 an hour.

Somewhere between Elon Musk working 100 - hour weeks running two companies and laying on a couch with a MacBook on your lap is the sweet spot for entrepreneurial success.

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.

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.

Ciubotariu claims in his LinkedIn post that, to his knowledge, no one has ever been forced to work late or on weekends if they did not want to, and he has never been scolded for not answering an email after hours.

It's a gruelling profession: most operators are on call 24 hours a day, and often work in isolated locations for long stretches.

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.

«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.

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

For Wall Street analysts who often work 100 + hours a week, something as mundane as a «hobby» is inevitably put on the back burner.

Women have less time for on - the - job labor because they spend more time doing housework than their male counterparts — so they miss out when they're working in fields that reward long hours, based on a new National Bureau for Economic Research study.

Set a schedule for gig workers and keep everyone updated on their working hours.

While sleeping on an air mattress in the office, dining on cans of Kroger soup, and working 18 hours a day, he spent a year and a half incubating his idea for dairy - free protein bars.

Working for a few bucks an hour is fine if you like crocheting, but it hurts full - time sellers by creating the equivalent of a developing economy on the Internet.

«Focus on smart work time,» says business coach Jenny Shih, «I usually shoot for 20 hours a week... and still made nearly $ 300k last year.»

Rather than trying to work as many hours a day on as little sleep as possible, I always aim for a minimum of seven hours of sleep.

A non-exempt employee must be paid only for hours worked, except for the possible exceptions noted in the section above on temporary shut downs.

BI: On the other hand, ahead of the General Elections we hear demands for zero - hour contracts (in which employees have few rights and no guaranteed work hours) to be reformed or even abolished.

«So we are aiming for omnichannel communication that is on at all hours, that can take advantage of AI to resolve customers» issues as quickly as possible, and that will work with all of the important messenger apps.»

Barton, the project manager, did the usual interviews and data analysis, but he went further: for a few hours before and after work, on his own time, he pumped gas.

The ritual mandates the absence of work, entertainment and travel, which makes for a 24 - hour period during which no flights are allowed in or out, electricity use is limited and cars are prohibited on the streets.

Ultra-productive people know what their most important task is and work on it for one to two hours each morning, without interruptions.

Despite working 60 + hour weeks as a realtor while filming Million Dollar Listing, I still managed to flip a house in the Hollywood Hills for $ 1.2 million in profit on the side.

A $ 15 - per - hour wage will put some people on more solid economic ground but at the same time make it harder for thousands of others to find work and get started on a career.

«Charles Darwin worked for two 90 - minute periods in the morning, then an hour later on; the mathematician Henri Poincaré from 10 am till noon then 5 pm till 7 pm; the same approximate stretch features in the daily routines of Thomas Jefferson, Alice Munro, John le Carré and many more,» writes Burkeman.

While the metrics on the white board are different, Coach Dave's words remain eternal: energy (number of hours worked of overtime), effort (percentage of new product developments and revenue streams created by non-Bauer family staff) and desperation (the proportion of our overhead to sales, or how efficient we are in utilizing our capital and labor in our hungry quest for higher profit margins) remain an integral part of the winning formula.

Even employees working full time for a single company who find themselves only working 30 hours a week could choose to add freelance projects on the side to stay busy, make more money, or expand their experience in the industry.

Whether employers want to keep team members on a strict 40 hours - a-week schedule or allow for some overtime, be clear about work expectations and how employees are to act in these situations.

You'll be asked to meet up for hours - long lunches when one of your friends is on a sabbatical because they assume you're «not really working.»

The clock was seen as an easy proxy for work ethic, and employees who logged marathon sessions at their desks «wore their hours like a badge, practically tattooed on their foreheads,» Emerson says.

Entrepreneurs» work schedules tend to go far beyond the standard 40 - hour workweek, causing many to forgo catching some z's for more hours working on their startup.

Today's workers are pretty entitled when it comes to Olympics - watching during the workday: More than three - quarters say it's «appropriate» for them to take work time to watch a competition or check scores — and a surprising 56 % think it's just fine for them or their colleagues to spend half an hour of the workday watching, listening to, or reading about the games, and almost 10 % think it's reasonable to spend an hour or more concentrating on the Games instead of their jobs.

For this list, we eliminated jobs with median salaries over $ 60,000, and ranked the rest based on three criteria: job growth from 2006 to 2011, median compensation (based on a 40 - hour work week) in 2011, and the change in median compensation from 2006 to 2011.

Salaried employees, for instance, tend to work five more hours per week on average than employees who are paid on an hourly basis.

So, what can you do to cut down on the amount you work and reclaim more hours in the day for yourself?

Since he's only on work release and technically not a free man, he would've been shackled at the legs and hands for the 5 hour bus ride back to civilization.

Trump, who had predicted success for McConnell's repeal - and - replace legislation just hours earlier, urged over Twitter: «Republicans should just REPEAL failing ObamaCare now & work on a new Healthcare Plan that will start from a clean slate.

During the meeting on employee activism, she brings up an issue that recently arose at some stores in Japan, Patagonia's second - largest market after the U.S.. All employees at Patagonia are encouraged to engage with their communities, either through volunteer work or by marching for a cause or hosting a meeting at a store (after hours).

In addition, the survey also showed that the average U.S. office worker thinks about work for 78 percent of their waking hours during a typical workday, versus 41 percent on a day off.