Many of you here represent companies and workplaces that are already doing just that -- embracing telecommuting, flextime, compressed work weeks, job sharing, flexible start and end times, and helping your employees generally find quality childcare and eldercare.

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In a 2011 employee benefits survey from the Society of Human Resource Management (SHRM), only 35 percent of the almost 600 companies surveyed even offered a compressed work week, and only 13 percent offered job sharing.

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But they have not been widely adopted because they have to be accelerated to Mach 1 (the speed of sound) before the air inside them becomes compressed enough for them to work.

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Furthermore, Kramer believes that the dissatisfaction derived from the work-life trade-offs may also be eased by company-supported flexible work policies, including paid vacation, flexible work arrangements or telecommuting and compressed workweeks.

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Rich digital content files are quite large and for content distribution (where the monetization of the production work takes place) is done with compressed digital formats.

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He was commissioned to write it as an episodic work for radio, so it is a swift, compressed and much condensed version of the 12, 000-line original.

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If you have the latest AV receiver with HDMI 1.3, you can set your player to send the compressed signal (aka bitstream) to it and let it do the heavy work.

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