Sentences with phrase «year off work»

In addition to flexible working schedules, they offer parents who have been employees for four years or more an entire year off work — paid.

Why take a year off work in the middle of your career and if you do, why go to places where you can't drink the water.

rrsp's are good for deferring income to a spouse which doesn't work, or is on maternity leave, or if you decide to take a year off work..

You can miss criteria and it doesn't reset anything (for example, say your wife takes a year off work).

Reynolds» plan is to have her baby and take a year off work, which would be largely funded by government maternity benefits.

For example, if you want to take a year off work and travel, the ball and chain that is your loan payments could be cost prohibitive.

Short - term goals such as vacations should have a time horizon of one to two years; medium - term goals such as taking a year off work are usually three to five years and long - term goals such as taking a trip around the world and retirement are often 10 years or more.

Says Hollett: «When I tell people I'm taking a year off work to travel, they say «that must be nice,» as if they could never afford such a luxury.

I had taken about a year off work to spend with my daughter and was working freelance on writing projects when she was about 2 years old.

The IRS does not clearly specify how long this gap can be — but, for example, if you took a year off work to spend time with your children, you will not qualify for a tax deduction.

Why not take the longest day of the year off work and actually accomplish all that stuff that's cluttering your brain?

But eventually, the pair discovered they could afford to take up to two years off work to travel.

Not exact matches

In other words, if the company notices a shift in local consumer tastes, it can fire off a batch of new garb from a nearby factory and get product on shelves many months faster than the old way — a supply chain triumph given that Levi works two years in advance and uses more than 1,000 different finishes in a season, which lasts six months.

In a meeting with his boss, Maynard, who will graduate from St. Mary's University this spring, learned that the company where he had been working part - time for nearly a year wanted to help him pay off his student loan — if he had no objections, of course.

«I took off what I thought was going to be 6 months of work, that turned into a year and I had already been to about 160 countries by then,» Lavallo told CNBC.

There is no shortage of studies sighting that employee effectiveness rises when time off is taken on a regular basis, but entrepreneurs can easily lose sight of this fact, working for months — even years — without time away from the business.

Our guides editor Malarie Gokey has also used this floss off and on for years, and it works well.

Last year, instead of paid time - off, Apple donated $ 50 per hour for volunteer work employees performed as part of its gift matching program.

Researchers working to fight mosquito - borne diseases have long been interested in using the bacteria to kill off local mosquito populations, but it wasn't until this year that they discovered how genes in the bacteria cause mosquitoes to produce nonviable eggs.

Labor force participation is down significantly over the past 20 years, but rising pay and benefits could entice some people off the sidelines and back to work.

He stopped production in 1967, and hot rod shops ripped off Shelby's design for 30 years while he worked with Ford and Chrysler.

This oasis is still a work in progress at the year - old Columbus, Ohio, startup — staffers sometimes find it hard to tear themselves away, Schroter admits — but those who do partake say it helps them stave off the dreaded afternoon slump.

Triggertrap has decided to do things a bit differently in 2015, designing a new four - point approach to vacations that significantly tweaks the simple «no tracking time off» policy that didn't work so well last year.

Three years ago, a mentor asked me that question and gave me life - changing advice: Schedule your day around when your brain is firing on all cylinders and hold off on brainless work until it is fatigued.

Third, the company could «go private» with a private equity company such as Bain, Carlyle or KKR and «go off the market for two years» in order to integrate Overstock's blockchain work with the retail arm.

As a result, you will end up with a mortgage that lasts for years and you have to work to pay off that mortgage.

Rossello highlighted how the island's electrical grid, which was severely dilapidated even prior to the storms, was obsolete and working off of a generation system that was 28 years older than the average electric power utility in the United States.

She worked at Yahoo for more than a decade, fighting off a copyright infringement suit from Sony BMG, helping the company navigate issues of online privacy and working on deals like a Microsoft search agreement (which was just revised this year).

The Fed has been working to normalize monetary policy over the past two years, beginning with its initial move off historically low, near - zero rates in December 2015.

Sheryl Sandberg has been encouraging women to lean in at work for years, and now she has proof her efforts are paying off.

And he built on that work to launch Luna Innovations Inc., a research - and - development launchpad in Blacksburg, Va., that has spun off five stand - alone businesses in the past three years.

And you know, 19 years later, as my daughter's off in university, it all worked out OK.

Having accomplished all that — by climbing the corporate ladder and working my tail off for many years in «a job,» mind you — I have the means to own a lot of things people covet.

Though the payback on an MBA degree is typically three to four years, it's unclear how long it will take graduates to work off their interest - bearing graduate debt.

I've done that off and on for 20 years, working for various dealerships, and there were times I made a pretty good living at it.

But while AOL could cut off Baker's salary, Mozilla was an independent entity, and Baker, who had become a popular and respected figure in the open - source world, remained as an unpaid volunteer for about a year, until a nonprofit called the Open Source Applications Foundation offered to restore a portion of her former salary to support her Mozilla work.

Hayden, who calls himself «a great salesman,» was working at Kellogg's until he was laid off eight years ago.

If that doesn't work, ask for volunteers to complete tasks around the office that have been put off all year.

And some are tempted by the path of least resistance that allows them to write off student debts — for instance, working for a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit for 10 years post-graduation.

Former FBI Director James Comey testified this year that the FBI worked off a copy of the server, which he described as an «appropriate substitute.»

We now work 167 fewer hours per year than they do, and the more we're paid, the more we slack off.

Instead, he allows his workers to recover from the rigors of the summer by working eight - hour days the rest of the year and taking a few extra days off.

Her campaign website tells the story of how she worked her way through the ranks in only 15 years, starting as an entry - level employee at AT&T to launching Lucent Technologies, a spin - off of the company.

Americans were stunned last year by news that Disney Corp. had laid off dozens of its American IT staff, and replaced them with foreign workers on the H - 1B work visa.

Though the company's lingo rolls off her tongue effortlessly, the 46 - year - old has never worked for Lululemon.

«After kicking off a Shopping feeds campaign, the SEO work that had been going for about a year gained significant traction, and traffic from organic search increased 325 % overall and more than 400 percent from mobile alone year - over-year,» she says.

But like other foreign - owned private security companies (PSCs), during the past few years it has been forced to hand off much of its work to local Afghan subcontractors.

«A lot of women off - ramp and stop working for five to seven years,» Caprino says.

Within weeks of working with McFarland last year, his team had already begun checking off goals like attaining a new product - quality certification and identifying new lower - cost materials.

The rate of serious injuries, requiring time off or a work restriction, was 30 percent worse than the previous year's industry average.