Also helpful: Make sure time away from work is time away from work, says Jess Alberts, a professor of human communication at Arizona State University.
And it takes away work from the people in Bangladesh.
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So I made a commitment to stay away from work for my week in Wellfleet.
Many workers lost their homes and stayed away from work for weeks to tend to their families.
Away from work, I ski, mess around in boats, spoil my grandchildren, and tinker with digital toys.
Carrie adds that sometimes it's hard to walk away from work at the end of the day.
In France more than 1m people stayed away from work on January 29th, marching for jobs and wages.
In the next update, I'll switch the focus away from work to more fun stuff -- HTPC and gaming.
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These women were filling up all their time away from work with chores.
Mr Frost said when people were away from work for periods of over four weeks it started to morph into something more.
They added that the social impact of khat has kept men away from work and led to the disintegration of families and local communities.
"The individual aspect is great for me because it means I can go away and work on whatever I feel like, " said Warwickshire batsman Ian Bell.
For most women, this is not a viable choice, since the more time they spend away from work, the larger the negative impact on their potential lifetime earnings.
In the past decade and a half U.S. manufacturers cut the number of injuries and illnesses involving days away from work from 352 to 141 per 10, 000 full-time workers.
Recent research is showing that consistently working long hours and not taking respite away from work, can have a damaging effect on health, and can negatively affect family life.
Children move away to work - and the report says insecurity over jobs and pressure on time mean older parents can see less of their family than they would like.
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Taking care of parents is part of Chinese tradition but the country's one-child policy and the trend of people moving away for work have put strains on the traditional family structure.
The court heard that the police took away the work gloves of three of the men and Mr McAuley handed his in to police the next day, but none of them was forensically examined.
The crowd of about two dozen spectators at one recent hearing included tea party members and other grassroots activists, some of whom took time away from work and traveled from towns around the state.
Why is it so difficult for me, and many other American professionals and managers, to take significant amounts of vacation, especially when studies show that time away from work actually enhances productivity and health?
"The hardest part is not being with the family - when you go away with work you know you're going, you know you're coming back and you know the end date - not knowing that end date was the hardest thing really, " he said.
Ms Weir said many single parents, who had been away from work for many years, were being put "under intense pressure" to find work by ministers who did not "recognise the real-world constraints that make it hard for them to find and keep a job".
There are a couple of barges that are starting to work right away, and I can verify this for you, but I believe the first place they're going to start working is somewhere around the Chandeleur Islands because the sand source is close enough where they can get to work right away.
Mr Grayling said while there were "clearly some people who are claiming incapacity benefit who are frankly, fit to work" the majority of those who could eventually return to work were still "a long way away from the work place" and would need much extra support to get back there.
He said about 25% of his work included "defending my people against more cuts", a task which dragged him away from his work tackling the BSE crisis.
There was just something about not having my personal life private at work that always made me shy away from developing any work-relationships.
The plumber would consume the better part of the morning driving to each job site to see that each employee takes their break, leaves the area of work, and stays away from the area of work for not less than the statutory duration of the break.
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He turned and walked away from his work, a feeling of satisfaction deep within him.
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