Sentences with phrase «work up to an hour»

«I was tired and breathless at first, but I worked up to an hour of run - walk intervals on the treadmill six days a week.»

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I ended up coming to work an hour later, and during my drive over the next few weeks, listened to the entirety of Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary (13 hours) which filled my car time with purpose.

When you're up against a deadline or facing a tough challenge, do the people you work with know instinctively that they'll find you in the thick of the fight — pitching in, working long hours, and doing whatever is necessary to succeed?

Tasks and to - do items can pile up, leaving you overwhelmed and working long hours just to keep up.

Since conscientious individuals are hard - working and efficient, they're able to remove household tasks and responsibilities from their partners» plates, freeing up more time for their spouse to recover from a hard day at work, or to put in more hours at the office.

Because my schedule is grueling and my hours are extreme, I have to get up 3 hours before my call time and work out before I show up for work.

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.

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.

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.

Burns uses early morning hours to get caught up on emails, getting up at 5:15 a.m. and sometimes working until midnight, according to Yahoo Finance.

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.

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).

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.

«They (think) they have to live in this house and they have to go to work and if they only get 10 pounds ($ 12) for working 60 hours that week well then that's life and what they have to put up with.»

While you should take a break from thinking about work during your lunch hour, it's smart to spend at least a few minutes coming up with a plan for tackling your afternoon tasks.

The feature does constitute a notable shift for Uber, which has long touted a hands - off approach with its employees, leaving work hours and locations up to the drivers to choose.

But, ironically, our loss of sleep, despite the extra hours we put in at work, collectively adds up to more than eleven days of lost productivity per year per worker, or about $ 2,280.

The program includes five courses, which require a commitment of two hours of your time each week — one for self - paced work, and one for a live virtual session with an instructor and up to 15 other executives.

He required managers to spend at least 10 percent of their working hours socializing with their employees; he offered new hires up to $ 4,000 to quit in order to weed out those who wouldn't give the kind of service Zappos required.

During the time when he is working, he sets his computer to freeze for 60 seconds every hour, and does sit - ups, push - ups and other tasks during this mini-break.

Its biggest bottleneck: Finding the rare kind of talent willing to put in long hours for the opportunity to do challenging work with startups that may end up being the next Facebook.

Students are generally short of money and have no lack of other demands on their time (though, let's be honest, plenty of college kids aren't exactly getting up at the crack of dawn to hit the books or spending every waking hour working).

The company currently uses a lab test that takes a minimum of eight hours, and sometimes up to a day or two, to get a readout of what phage or phages will work best against a particular strain of bacteria.

If you've got a big talk coming up, an important client presentation or a project launch, decide that you'll finish the preparation or the work 48 hours before the actual deadline — and stick to the earlier due date.

Back in the Flickr days, he worked 60 - plus hours a week and expected everyone else to keep up.

Many factors are contributing to this: the ubiquity of smartphones and internet access, the increasingly global scope of business and, importantly, greater acceptance of flexible and / or alternative work arrangements (think: spending only three hours in the office during the day, then catching up from the neighbourhood coffee shop at night).

The majority ended up using their phones to work outside business hours, but did not use it for personal purposes between nine and five.

Some retail employees also work «on - call» shifts that allow superiors to tell them they're not needed at work up until two hours before their scheduled arrivals.

For example, try breaking up your work hours into multiple shifts to help keep your brain refreshed during the time you're actually working.

Baxter can be taken out of the box, set up, trained, and put to work in about one hour.

Interns are encouraged to work full - time (40 hours a week) if their schedule allows, and the internship can run for up to six months.

Staffers work extra hours Monday - Thursday and take Friday off rather than spending time coming up with creative ways to sneak out early.

Mamane's case is extreme, but it underlines a crucial point: any tailor with 10,000 hours of experience can do a bang - up job hemming trousers, but when it comes to style, there's no guarantee that you'll like that tailor's work.

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.»

Working 60 or more hour work weeks is tiring enough, so you will need to keep your energy levels up in order to stay at the top of your game.

When you really want to get serious about making the most of your hours, you'll commit to an inspiring and uplifting morning routine, then follow it up directly with another hour of real work before you check messages — like I just did with this article.

«We worked up to two days a week from a couple of hours.»

You might not need special clothes or long hours («Undertake a commitment to try to sit three times a week for five to 10 minutes to begin with, working up to 20 every day,» Salzberg suggests), but you do need appropriate expectations and a good guide.

After waiting in line for an hour to apply, he spotted the manager Jack Kelly, and went right up to him, shaking his hand and saying: «I just want you to know that I waited in line for the last hour to submit my application because I really want to work here,» he wrote.

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).

«We remain committed to achieving a win - win solution and urge the two unions to work closely with us and the federal mediators to achieve a positive outcome as soon as possible in the hours leading up to the deadline.»

Although many Boomer entrepreneurs report working up to 60 hours a week, few claim to have the same energy as when they were younger.

Although she doesn't run right to the office upon waking up at 4:30 a.m., Warrior spends an hour on email, reads the news, works out and gets her son ready for school.

The truth: If you read biographies or stories about the world's most successful people, you'll hear over and over again that they get up at INSANE hours like 3 and 4 a.m. to start working.

She was paid $ 10 per hour and given just enough work to get her up to the point (but not over) where she still remained ineligible to receive health benefits.

Malcolm Gladwell may or may not have been completely right when he claimed that becoming a true expert in any subject requires 10,000 hours of practice, but whether his exact number stands up to scrutiny, the underlying truth still holds — getting good at things is time - consuming and involves a lot of hard work.

Through effective time management, you can free up more hours in the day to work on growth.

In my tests, the Pixel 2 would charge up to almost half in about 15 minutes (about seven hours of battery), extending the battery life for a day of work right before your commute.

For a service that costs $ 399 for 16 hours of work per month (the Exec plan costs $ 749 for 32 hours per month and the VIP plan costs $ 1,199 for 55 hours), it wasn't living up to my expectations.

Internships run for 6 months, and interns are encouraged to work up to 40 hours a week.