Sentences with phrase «worked against the company»

But being different has worked against the company with its previous consoles.

The common perception that cosmetic, skin / hair care and other personal products must be okay because the government wouldn't allow them otherwise works against companies such as nudus because it has to convince shoppers that all is not necessarily okay in beauty land.

Gallup's 2013 State of the American Workplace Report came out a few days ago and finds that between 1010 and 2012 only 30 % of workers report being actively engaged at work, 50 % are unengaged, and 20 % are actively disengaged (working against the company's interest).

Not exact matches

The cable series follows a young computer programmer who works for a cybersecurity company but leads a secret life as a hacker who works with an insurrectionist group that launches cyber attacks against large corporations.

At such companies sometimes it's difficult to gain approval for a work practice that goes against set policies.

«I am pleased that our employees are protected and will continue their work under new ownership — disentangled from the legal campaign against the company.»

Because all of Tesla's cars are equipped with the software and hardware necessary to collect data that can be used to improve its ML system, the electric - car company could have a huge edge against other automakers and tech companies working on autonomous vehicles.

By collecting data points from users» bikes, including revolutions per minute, speed, and distance, and matching it against other Peloton cyclists, the company says it motivates customers to work harder.

The leadership team also has regular «credo sessions,» where Gorsky will guide the company's top executives through the credo and facilitate discussions of what's working and what isn't, as measured against its ideals.

This, the company believed, would ensure no one worked at Bisha against his will.

«I have been forced to make a difficult decision: to become complicit in crimes against the American people or walk away from nearly ten years of hard work by shutting down Lavabit,» Ladar Levinson, the company's founder, said in a letter to users.

I worked with a company a while back who showed me they were improving productivity every period, against their own numbers, but were losing the race to competitors.

Zimmer explained that when motivating employees of Lyft to work hard against Uber — which has six times the funding of Lyft, and is the highest - valued private startup in the world — he focuses on the company's «humanity:» the fact that it values person - to - person interaction.

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.

When Mark Hurd, the recently fired Hewlett - Packard CEO, went to work for Oracle, HP sued him, arguing he would use his knowledge of the company's business strategy against it.

For one thing, companies today have «human resources, we have IT, and we have a real estate division — all acting separately and, often, unwittingly working against each other,» Martin says.

While it appears companies can still hire workers from the affected countries to work in the U.S., some members of Silicon Valley spoke out against allowing any part of the ban to stand.

Female and minority software engineers at the company accused it of discriminating against them, alleging that management allowed a hostile work environment.

Working against Rethink will be the inevitable concern that the company is facilitating the outsourcing of jobs to robots.

Instead, they should position their businesses to make sure that technology is working for — not against — their companies.

These employees are emotionally disconnected from their companies and can potentially end up working against their employers» interests.

The Late Show host also spoke to Cook about his decision last year to publicly announce that he is gay, as well as the Apple CEO's efforts to increase the company's charitable works: «It became so clear to me that kids were getting bullied in school, kids were getting discriminated against, kids were even being [disowned] by their own parents,» Cook said.

Duggan, who co-founded the company in 2013, was named in a lawsuit filed against BetterWorks in the San Francisco Superior Court on July 13, which alleged a hostile work environment in which sexist behavior was tolerated by management.

But when your company is trying to manipulate consumers into doing something, human psychology is just as likely to work against you as for you.

Until just a few years ago, a good disaster recovery plan included insuring your company against flood and disruption, backing up your data and storing it in a different location once a week, as well as developing a contingency plan for your employees to work from home, or some other location.

Every day, companies take action against employees who make unlawful statements about co-workers, or create hostile work environments.

For all the talk of EMC Federation companies being able to sell both with each other and against each other, it's hard to see how this will work in the field given that Team EMC faces prodigious competition from Amazon (AMZN) Web Services and Microsoft (MSFT) for these accounts.

In fact, they're cash payouts from governments to production companies, in theory credited against the income and sales taxes paid by the individuals and service companies the shows put to work.

«We take this matter very seriously,» a ZocDoc spokeswoman tells Inc. «As a company, we pride ourselves on being a great place to work, and we have a long - standing policy against any forms of unlawful harassment or discrimination.»

Stripe, a private company recently described by Bloomberg Businessweek as a $ 9 billion startup, is unusual in not having a policy against working with hate sites.

A few months before taking her company public this summer, Arista Networks (ANET) CEO Jayshree Ullal told Fortune she'd never compete in a «conventional way» against Cisco (CSCO), where she worked for more than a decade.

«Qualcomm has confirmed publicly that this lawsuit against our clients is intended to make a point about Apple and punish our clients for working with Apple,» Theodore J. Boutrous, a lawyer for the four companies, said in a statement.

Game company Looney Labs is winning customers against giants like Hasbro Games with the help of the Mad Lab Rabbits -500-plus fans who volunteer to work their tails off at trade shows, conventions and local appearances.

She made the comment despite the BBB's decline in complaints against work - at - home companies, from 3,662 in 2007 to 3,539 in 2008.

Wing is part of X, formerly known as Google X, which is the company's R&D unit working on far - out «moonshot» projects, racing against Amazon and drone makers like DJI to usher in what may one day be a massive new market, delivering everything from food to medicine straight to people's doorsteps.

«A majority of PAE suits are brought against non-tech companies,» says Colleen Chien, whose work is cited extensively in a white paper that accompanied the administration's legislative proposals.

In the past, Apple positioned itself squarely against those companies, but it now works closely with them.

Airbnb worked to help defeat Prop F, but then held a news conference in which the company said it could mobilize its users to vote down proposed rules that were aimed against it in other cities.

So far, its strategy is working, shattering prevailing assumptions that young American tech companies can not compete against local rivals.

The Elon Musk - led company went a step further as well, stating that the piece was an «ideologically motivated attack by an extremist organization working directly with union supporters to create a calculated disinformation campaign against Tesla.»

The ordinance seeks to establish regulation and a permitting process that would enable the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency or Department of Public Works to take action against scooters from companies that don't have an official permit from the city.

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«These 3G guys are really about how can we extract more out of the business, and long term, that tends to not work out well for a brand,» says Horan, who is considering «shorting,» or betting against, the shares of the holding company if and when the deal closes and it hits the market.

Cash profits over the past 12 months amount to a respectable $ 24.4 million, which, weighed against the company's $ 820 million enterprise value, works out to an enterprise value - to - free - cash - flow ratio of about 34.

With nearly 500 claims against pharmaceutical companies, distributors and pharmacies consolidated in Ohio alone, Denton said that the volume of work involved is daunting for insurance, risk and legal professionals.

They both had experience building companies, loved to work hard and move fast, and didn't mind an uphill battle against outdated industry norms.

In this video I'm going to show you a great way to get better keywords out of the Google Adwords Keyword tool if you haven't seen the previous video you'll want to watch that video where I show you how to get better search volume numbers from both google adwords as well as some other sources to get better estimates for the amount of times that keyword is searched each month i'll put a link in the video here so that you can click that video if you haven't seen that yet let's get started now if you want better results from the Google Adwords Keyword planner you have to work a little differently than everyone else so most people come to the Google Adwords Keyword planner and they simply click on this search for new keywords using a phrase, website, or category and then they just paste a bunch of keywords into this text box so let's say as an example that these were our starting keywords ok so let's say we have the keywords «fishing tips» «fishing tackle» «fishing for bass» «fishing rod» and «fishing reel» what most people do is that they would simply come here and they would copy this they would paste it into this field and they would hit Search and they would get back their results and that's fine but one little tip that will help you get much better results is only paste in one key word at a time so instead of pasting all these in just paste in the single keyword «fishing tips» and then proceed from there to pull that those results up and you'll get this back if you click right here you can download the ideas you'll notice they're 701 here listed so if we download these ideas will download them to a CSV file comma separated value file you can open that with notepad you can open it with excel open office when you're finished putting all your ideas and individually you will now have a bunch of different common separate value files containing the keywords and the search volume I've already gone ahead and done that just to save time on the video but i want to show you what happens when you use this method versus just pasting in the keywords like most people do so here you'll see this column here represents these two columns here represent if we had pasted in all of the keywords at once and click search at google adwords keyword tool is one that showed you and you'll see we have a total of 706 results we got back when we did that this column this column here represents what happens when we paste one key word at a time and then download the file paste the second keyword download the file and then we just simply grab those terms and copy them and you'll see now we have a total of 1,915 keywords now what I've done with the highlighting here is to show you anything that's not highlighted in this column is a keyword we would not have gotten back had we pasted in all the keywords at once you can see there's lots and lots of keywords here we would not have seen know your competitors and the company's you're competing against they're using probably the simple method just pasting a bunch of keywords sitting search and then looking through those terms to find their terms if you will take the extra few minutes it takes doesn't take long to simply go in and paste one key word at a time you will get back a ton of great keywords that others aren't seeing because they're using this other method and in actuality when I ran the numbers there's a total of 3.8 million searches represented by these keywords here that you would miss if you simply just copied and pasted those five terms and hit search the Google Adwords Keyword planner once you've used the google keyword planner to find lots of new keyword ideas what do you do with all those keywords the biggest problem is that you can there are so many keyword tools out there you can get hundreds of thousands of keywords by spending a day using the different keyword tools but what you do with all that information the answer is a cool tool called keyword grouper pro and Keyword Grouper Pro is completely free there's not even an opt in you just simply download the tool now at the top of this video there's a link if you click that i'll show you exactly how to use keyword grouper pro doesn't matter where you got your keywords from i'm going to show you how to take those keywords group them into tight groups and then you can set up your campaigns and know exactly which groups represent buyers and once you know where the buyers are at you can simply focus your marketing in that area to make more profit in your business

Both the CTFC and SEC working in conjunction with one another filed civil suits against the company, seeking disgorgement, financial penalties and other preliminary and permanent injunctions against the company.

If you worked for an oil company, and then suddenly were out and about protesting big oil and practicing against what your company stands for, they won't keep you around long.

it is really hard to work for a company that goes against everything you believe in morally and ethically, but i do it because i have a family to feed.