And we have had, from the outset of this administration, through a lot of work -- working with great powers and others around the world -- a high degree of unity on this.
Tony Hsieh, Zappos' chief executive, is also developing a large co-working space in downtown Las Vegas, and Zappos employees are encouraged to work out of co-working facilities, the company says.
The Occupy movement wants to make the economy work for hard-working people.
Instead of working a 12-hour shift, the firefighters now work 24-hour shifts, including 12 working hours and 12 standby hours.
As important, the principles of welfare-to-work can be applied to other working-age people who in many countries have come to depend on welfare through disability payments.
The shift-work culture means working until time is up, rather than until work is done.
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Both predicting the future of work and designing for it (whether as a corporate HR executive, a coffee shop owner, a vendor of virtual-work technologies or an entrepreneur developing a co-working space) involves thinking about a messy and complicated bundle of ideas with at least a couple of dozen major dimensions.
We had a two-year tax cut for Make Work Pay for -- 95 percent of working Americans got a tax cut, middle-class families, small business people.
Even then, there were millions of people living in households with no work - and millions of others working longer hours they would like.
Some argue that the official rate is high enough, but that ignores discouraged workers, or those not consistently looking, or those working work part-time but want full-time jobs.
Highlights of the new space include a fitness room equipped with treadmill desks that allow employees to exercise while they work and a working Irish-themed pub with shuffleboard.
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When the other party has been willing to work with me to help middle-class families and working families, I love to work with them.
What you'll often see is a group of undocumented immigrants doing scut work - doing sweeping up, carrying heavy stuff, setting up the machinery, working alongside either native-born or documented immigrants who are doing the higher-paid skilled work - carpenters, electricians, plumbers, that sort of thing.
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And the measure of unemployment that takes into account people who have stopped looking for work but still want a job, as well as those working part-time because full-time work is unavailable, increased to 16.5%.
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The number of people who want full-time work, but are working fewer hours is unchanged at 8.3 million.
Councillor Hilary Bastone said it was hoped the work would "future-proof the working of the ferry for the next 50 years".
The government also foreshadowed some of its welfare-to-work reforms such as the working family tax credit and more support for childcare.
He says the role of his organisation is to deliver practical prevention work - both safeguarding potential victims and working with young men who are potential perpetrators.
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Much of the research on work-life conflict focuses on harried working mothers trying to juggle everything, desperate for more time, with lots of reasons to leave work early.
There are too many people on temporary work, agency work, working for a sub-contractor, who don't actually have the rights for which we've legislated enforced, and they're not getting the protection that they need.
The prospect of choosing between multiple job offers may seem unlikely these days, given all the talk of joblessness and the real unemployment rate of 15.1% (counting people who have given up looking for work, and those working part-time who wish they had full-time jobs).
Two-thirds of all the people on benefits are in work, so perhaps ministers might consider resisting the temptation conjure-up their favoured imagery of hard-working people setting-out early in the morning while their neighbours on out-of-work benefits are still snugly tucked-up behind their closed blinds.
And when sleeping pills aren't enough to help patients stay alert, a wakefulness drug called Provigil is already approved for excessive daytime sleepiness caused by narcolepsy, sleep apnea and shift-work sleep disorder--the exhaustion brought on in some people by working the night shift.
That type of self-interest screwing customers, homeowners, and investors is applauded as hard work and smart thinking while the poor guy working 9-5 and trying to earn enough to support a wife and kids who finds himself out on the street although he participated in none of this.
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That his music is almost wholly composed of samples of the work of other pop musicians including the original hardest-working man, Mr. James Brown is part of what makes his work so relevant to the over-shared and under-curated electronic world we experience online.
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The Trades Union Congress says Britain's policy of allowing companies to opt-out of the European Union Working Time Directive, meaning people to work over the 48-hour a week limit on a "voluntary" basis, meant the protection it offered could be circumvented.
The various working sub-groups work very hard at incorporating the needs of the hardware and software community.
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They don't have the means to stop working--they work to eat--and they don't have the ability to rally large groups.
At the Seattle law firm Perkins Coie, he focused his work on start-up technology companies, working on issues such as licensing and technology.
In welfare, every person of working age able to work - wherever they live and whatever their needs - will receive personalised support, including personal advisers able to provide tailored support to help people back into work, not just registered job seekers but steadily more of the three million of working age who are otherwise economically inactive.
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