Sentences with phrase «work than the number»

And how literature handles its people — the stuff on whom its dreams and sales are made — will finally tell us more about the expressive character and compassionate value of our work than any number of startups and softwares, hackathons and app releases.

However for anyone involved in persuading the public, using examples the public can connect to emotionally is a technique that is more likely to work than any number of pages of dry scientific text.

Not exact matches

China's working population is projected to decline by more than 10 % by 2050, while the number of retirees will triple, to more than 300 million.

The huge numbers of Dutch people working less than 30 hours a week I met in Amsterdam stirred me to think critically about work culture across the Atlantic.

Like Robert, I tend to work fairly long hours, but I have greater control over mine than he does; I can take breaks if I want, work in the evening instead of at mid-day... the total number of hours I work isn't particularly flexible, but when I work them is.

There are more smart people in the world who do not work at your company than the total number of smart people who work at your company.

But a small business with a work force of half a dozen people will be hurt far more by such an employee than will a company with a work force that numbers in the hundreds (or thousands).

Although Amazon's Alexa team is just a small fraction of the company's overall workforce of nearly 350,000 people, the number of people working on Alexa is more than several consumer companies combined.

The number of parents who treat their children unequally in wills more than doubled from 1995 to 2010, according to an October 2015 working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research.

After more than a decade at Salesforce, I've seen the number of distractions at work grow along with the pressure to continually pack your pipeline with viable leads and new business.

The research, which is based on salary and offer data (rather than self - reported numbers), is compiled into a report called Women, Work, and the State of Wage Inequality.

The numbers are stark: America's population is 13 percent black, but in the Silicon Valley work force, that portion is less than 1 percent.

The fussy work looks more like a craft — say, needlepoint or weaving — than high - tech manufacturing, though each of the thousands of cables has its own serial number for quality control and traceability.

Perhaps the number of hours we work will be more of a choice than it is now.

Also in an effort to ramp up e-commerce, Wal - Mart recently introduced a free two - day shipping service for orders of more than $ 35, and worked to increase the number of items available for purchase online to more than 35 million — up from just 8 million in 2016.

Once you understand the power of FOMO and how to control it, you can reduce the number of things you're working on, improve the quality of your work on what remains, and get control, rather than letting poor choices control you.

Employers offering mass numbers of jobs and high - end work moved out of the U.S. much faster than they moved in — 57 percent head out while just 9 percent thought about moving in.

Birch ranks Nebraska 49th in the country in two categories: the percentage of people working at companies that are less than 15 years old and the number of jobs lost to layoffs and closings.

The number of women, African - Americans and Hispanics employed at companies such as Google, Facebook and Yahoo lag far behind the U.S. work force as a whole; meanwhile, only 3 percent of venture funding is earmarked for female founders, and founders of color claim less than 1 percent, according to U.S. chief technology officer Megan Smith.

The Trades Union Congress (TUC), which represents nearly 6 million British workers, said that the growing number of low - paid, self - employed workers who work irregular hours earn significantly less than conventional employees and therefore pay less tax and national insurance.

There have been many studies published over the years that working less results in higher productivity (hint: the optimal number is less than 40 hours per week).

At the time, we were among only a small number of women at TCS (today there are more than 100,000 women), which only strengthened our friendship and ability to navigate our work environment.

While it's a shock to get 89 percent of people to agree on anything (smaller numbers agree that the earth goes around the sun and not the other way around, for instance), the fact that working together is less lonely than working apart is hardly a world - shaking revelation.

A Danish study found that as the number of people working in a room increased, so did the relative number of sick days — and people who worked in fully open offices were out 62 % more than their cubed counterparts.

Assuming I got along with both CEOs and enjoyed working with either of them equally, but the number of women - led ventures receiving venture investment was still disproportionately less than their male counterparts, I would probably invest in the venture led by a female CEO.

Anyone who nevertheless wants to grow and dispense should consider working in a state that has restricted numbers of licenses, rather than a state such as California or Colorado where there are few such barriers to entry.

The number of people working on the side has more than doubled in the last 40 years, rising to nearly one million Canadians as of 2015, says Statistics Canada.

Put a cap on the number of hours employees are working by managing schedules to ensure none work more than 10 hours each day, even if they're clocking - in at home.

If it works, it could be used in a far greater number of patients than Sarepta's drug, which is approved for a relatively small slice of the DMD patient pool.

The Internet giant recently announced it would pay certain authors based on the number of pages read in a book, rather than the number of times that a work is downloaded.

But more than double that number, 35 percent, said they worked eight hours or more, up from 18 percent when CareerBuilder conducted this same survey in 2007.

Across Canada, the number of people with jobs fell by 20,000 in April as gains in full - time work were more than offset by losses in part time.

And Mr. Gorman's message that he was more concerned about making the numbers work than simply keeping the troops happy quickly filtered down to the trading floor.

Aside from paying for basic necessities, millennials cited travel as their number two reason for seeking flexible work options, much higher than generation x or baby boomer respondents.

Over the past year, the number of people with jobs has increased by more than 2 1/2 per cent, a positive outcome given that the working - age population is increasing at around 1 1/2 per cent a year.

In fact, some of the folks I work with who have millions stashed away spend less than $ 82,770 number each year.

According to a recent study by the Telework Research Network, nearly 30 million Americans work from home at least one day per week, with the numbers expecting to increase by more than 60 percent in the coming five years.

That median pay figure is skewed by the large number of Amazon's more than 560,000 employees who work in its package warehouses, distribution centers, Whole Foods grocery stores and other places far from the ping - pong tables, endless free kale chips and yoga rooms of Silicon Valley's rich tech campuses.

More than 44 percent of survey respondents reported a worsening work ethic among recent graduates, and nearly 38 percent reported an increase in the number of unfocused employees.

A seed round investor like Lee has different numbers to work with than a venture capital firm like Kleiner.

To put this number in perspective, it's more than the 12 million people the venture capital community claims works for U.S. venture backed companies (which includes firms like Fed Ex, Microsoft, Google, Starbucks, etc.).

The Guardian's US millennials feel more working class than any other generation covers data from the General Social Survey showing that the number of millennials (born 1980 to 2000) who consider themselves middle class has fallen from 45.6 % in 2002 to 34.8 % in 2014.

These types of numbers work best as more of a context than an actual catalyst to take serious action.

In contrast, a long - standing research stream in brainstorming (psychology) literature has repeatedly found that people working in groups are actually less creative than the same number of individuals working separately.

Actually the number of True Fans needed for a coach to prosper is probably much less than 1000, because coaching clients pay a pretty high fee to work one - on - one with their coach.

Depending on your situation, it could make more sense to take the standard deduction rather than itemize, so be sure to run the numbers to see which scenario works out the most in your favor.

Moody's also committed to fulfill a number of compliance measures, including separating commercial functions of its ratings business from the work of its ratings analysts and having its internal audit group report to the chief executive rather than the chief financial officer.

a) investing their own money alongside you, so your interests are aligned b) a stake in the company they work at i.e. it is a partnership or employee - owned c) a proven ability to outperform an index over the long - term (at least 10 years) d) reasonable charges — preferably no more than a 1 % management fee and no performance fee e) a concentrated, high conviction portfolio i.e. they do not just hug their benchmark f) a low - asset - turnover ratio i.e. they have a long - term investment horizon and rarely sell investments g) a proven ability to preserve capital during the bad times h) a stable team who have worked together for a number of years.

We already have more than 40 institutional clients, including Mex Exchange, FxPro, JFD Brokers, Halifax and many other industry leaders who have been working with us for several years, and every day the number of our customers grows.

If the returnee hopes to work in foreign affairs, the government could ask the individual to demonstrate proficiency a language other than French, as many Asian nations have a limited number of French speakers.