Sentences with phrase «work in fewer hours»

To profit in this environment, lawyers must produce high - quality work in fewer hours.

For lawyers working on fixed fee matters, productivity will no longer emphasize logging the most hours but rather producing more work in fewer hours.

Our writers have the potential to complete writing work in few hours.

* shrug * I guess we'll all find out for sure how it works in a few hours.

Sky completely clear without a cloud to be seen and great night for stargazing but I have to work in a few hours: — LRB -.

Not exact matches

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

They're doing it through dozens of workshops held in community centers, libraries, YMCA's, and municipal buildings, where anywhere from 40 to 60 women (and sometimes a few men) work their way through a two - hour curriculum that teaches them how to figure out how much they should be paid, how to make their case to an employer, and how to gracefully exit a negotiation that might not be going well.

Next Monday, Blue Point Brewing, which is owned by AB InBev, is unveiling a new Pilsner called Delayed, a Penn Station - exclusive beer named in honor of the train you thought you were going to take home right after work, but will now be spending the next few hours waiting on instead.

«Everybody worries about making mistakes,» he says, «but when it comes to choosing between working 24 hours [and risking] having your mental faculties function at less efficiency, and spreading that out over more time, most lawyers would tell you the former is more likely to result in fewer mistakes.

In practical terms, that will free up the design staff to do more creative, speculative work because it will take fewer traditional «billable» hours from the staff to cover the firm's operating costs.

It was much easier to find meaning and satisfaction in activities outside of work when we were under a lot less pressure and worked far fewer hours.

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.

If we can really streamline things as much as we think we can, most experts are in agreement that we will end up working fewer hours.

In the future, people won't automatically work fewer hours.

If you are in startup mode, it can be easy to work from dusk till dawn, sleep for a few hours, order a pizza and go do it again.

Like Sachs, Whippman believes that «there are many reasons why life in America is likely to produce anxiety compared with other developed nations: long working hours without paid vacation time for many, insecure employment conditions with little legal protection for workers, inequality, and the lack of universal health care coverage, to name a few,» but she stresses that our «happiness - seeking culture» is also part of the problem.

Define exactly what you need, whether that's a larger budget to get real results, an assistant, flexible hours, working from home a few days a week, time to go to the gym and clear your head in the afternoons, more realistic expectations, the ability to define strategic goals or otherwise, and explain how that will have a positive impact on your output.

Out of the routine, and thus briefly out of his current mindset, something that can quietly but powerfully take hold of any of us and narrow our view, even in the few hours of work before lunchtime.

In order to get out of the restaurant service industry, John planned to work six hours per week on his own business, FUBU, and if he reached certain goals, he would double that after a few months.

Bloom and Liang found study participants who worked from home also put in more hours and took fewer sick days, thanks to not having to commute as well as the ability to start earlier in the day.

But unless you work as an emergency responder (in which case you already have a radio), there are very few emergencies that can't wait for half an hour, or even a couple of hours while you unplug.

Exhausted from hours of nonstop work, the interns would sneak into a bathroom stall, plug headphones into their smartphones and set the alarm, in hopes of stealing a few precious minutes of shut - eye, according to several former interns who worked for the bank in the summer of 2011.

Runyon also noted in his post that he has been more productive, more active during the day, and working fewer hours since he started this process.

And with the advent of the latest generation of GPS - enabled smartphones, that trend has only accelerated in the past few years, enabling employee tracking outside of work hours, too.

In Bangladesh, workers, mostly women, work long hours for minimum wages that labour advocacy groups say keep those workers trapped in poverty and with few or no rights to organize to improve conditionIn Bangladesh, workers, mostly women, work long hours for minimum wages that labour advocacy groups say keep those workers trapped in poverty and with few or no rights to organize to improve conditionin poverty and with few or no rights to organize to improve conditions.

The enhancement benefits to your content and SEO strategies alone make social media worth the effort — but add in the customer service angle and the community building power, and you'll calculate that even a few hours of work per day can be enough to earn you thousands of new visitors per month (and strengthened relationships with your existing subscriber base).

No, we generally have translated greater output in the few hours of work per week over the last century.

My flexible position allows me to work a few hours at a time in the morning, during the day or evening.

I was a victim of corporate layoffs a few years ago and although I loved my job I can now work when I want and do so in the confines of my own home, setting my own hours and wearing what I want:)

Consumers are unlikely to embrace a wristwatch computer like the one being worked on by Apple, or Google's smart glasses, if they work only a few hours between charges and must be removed to be plugged in.

So, in Canada's case, lower labour productivity and fewer hours worked caused Canada's income per capita to be lower than that of the United States.

It's hard to believe that you worked fewer than 15 hours a month, which is the maximum allowable for a self - employed person in a highly skilled profession.

The fact that those with jobs are working longer hours may eventually lead to an uptick in hiring, but few expect rapid improvement.

Unit labour costs (based on compensation per hour worked) grew by 1.3 per cent in the June quarter to be 2.8 per cent higher over the year, which is around the average growth rate of the past few years.

A 40 hour work week or getting home after a few weeks in Margareta vill all have a touch of this world or evil in them (including the thought of boredom, fatigue).

I worked too hard, talked too much, slept too few hours, ate more than I needed, competed in an outsized way, and tried to manage the affairs of those around me.

It's a combination of a few things that are real: the baby won't sleep, I have four children and there aren't enough hours in the day for everything to get done, I have obligations and duties and work and requirements demanding all of my attention and my time just like everyone else — trust me, I'm no special snowflake.

Should those who have other employment («tentmakers») have fewer job requirements and be expected to work fewer hours in «ministry»?

And even in the difficulties, even in the exhaustion, even in knowing that I have to rise and shine for every one else in the house in just a few short hours and how my work has suffered, even knowing I can't do this forever and knowing that I'll finagle for a tandem nap while everyone is at school, even here in this moment, I admit it: I delight in her and in this rickety glider that creaks on the ease back motion.

I'm not sure I thought about this parable seriously again until I was in seminary and assigned to work a few hours a week at a church.

I holed up in a corner to get a few hours of work done and it was peaceful.

Thanks to other reviewers I drained my ricotta for a few hours in the fridge over a strainer prior to working with it.

Once I felt that soft salt air all of my good intentions of working a few hours a day blew away with the remnants of the cold rain that I left behind in Chi town.

Literally just dump everything into your slow cooker, press a few buttons, and your dinner is ready in a matter of hours with practically no work on your part.

Cover and let the sponge work for a few hours in the refrigerator to develop it.

It's marinated for a few hours, and voila, you have yourself a magic bruschetta mix that works well in baked tortilla bowls, but also on a salad, pizza or even with zucchini noodles.

Just a tip I use to make all of my shredded / cooked chicken, but I put it in the slowcooker with a little broth and a few hours later it's falling apart and easy to shred / chop, I HATE cooking chicken so this works for me.

Although the busy holiday tea season can mean long hours with few days off, Lisa says working in the tea salon gives her a quality of life that she could never have imagined over 25 years ago.

After waiting a few hours for the cakes to set in the freezer it was finally time to test them... Whooalh, they worked!

A sluggish or hungry starter won't work for this recipe, so be sure your starter is nice and bubbly and doubles in size within a few hours of feeding.