It also received a grant towards 19 new specialist design jobs in Livingston in March last year.
Now most of Meitec's business comes from sending teams to take on entire design jobs -- where margins are highest.
But, for the vast majority of other workplaces, there is way too little attention paid as to how to design jobs to allow people to achieve a balance.
If the reports are true, it is ironic that in the age of super competition and the trend towards larger screen sizes, Apple is about to introduce an old design from Steve Jobs.
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Apple is ready to introduce an old design by Steve Jobs as the next iPhone, perhaps called iPhone 5S, according to the San Francisco Examiner, reporting on comments Apple government liaison Michael Foulkes made to San Francisco District Attorney George Gascon.
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Surely it created engineering and manufacturing jobs to design and produce the machine, right?
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The alternative-culture blog Boing Boing revamped its design in honor of Jobs to resemble retro Macintosh software.
Miguel Helft, of The New York Times, cleverly read between the lines of 313 Apple design patents that include Jobs.
If, as Jobs postulates, design is indeed how things work, then the decisions made at WordPress are likely to have a big, big impact on the immediate future of journalism.
Though the Petersiks in the past have made revenue through paid writing jobs and private design consulting, the majority of their income now comes from advertising on the site - either through automatically generated Google ads, or through direct site sponsors, which often include design and home supply companies such as the Tile Shop.
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He also said he spends less time on design and marketing than Mr. Jobs, who had a particular passion and reputation for micromanaging those functions.
Tax rebates are one way governments might be able to break the cycle that leaves us with too many jobs having too poor design for work-life balance.
And if his more creative folks such as Jony Ives, senior VP of industrial design, can continue carry on the design and product conception brilliance of Jobs, that could continue to keep Apple humming.
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You could probably design rules that would prevent Steve Jobs from cadging an extra four bucks a share from his options, but what's the point if all the savings would be sucked away by lawyers and financial printers?
Without access to lower-cost labor in places like Shenzhen, countless ideas hatched in U.S. laboratories which became viable commercial products that support hundreds of thousands of jobs in engineering, design, marketing, logistics, retailing, finance, accounting, and manufacturing might never have made it beyond conception because the costs of production would have been deemed prohibitive for mass consumption.
Herman started bidding on jobs, sometimes taking a design fee and sometimes a percentage of sales.
Johnson helped Jobs change the vision to design the stores to display products by their use for all consumers.
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Starck says he finished the design after just one conversation in which Jobs gave him the length (around 80m) and the number of bedrooms.
So if we accept that Ive is the sucessor to Jobs with the title of design-obsessive-in-chief, then looking at his own choices in wrist wear becomes relevant.
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Finally, Google could continue creating jobs as it research, design, and manufacture the systems close to its current operations in Mountain View and the secret Google X Lab believed to be in the Bay Area, where the autonomous cars were developed.
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The most popular jobs are web development, graphic design, market analysis and writing articles.
Even Jobs would get involved in the design and engineering of such seemingly trivial parts.
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By 2038, New York's green economy could generate nearly 200, 000 jobs, many in architecture, design and engineering.
Art and design courses are still attracting record numbers of students, and, remarkably, the art and design industries are still offering more and more jobs.
The jobs at Dell are engineering, design and managerial.
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It could be argued that Mr. Jobs was a disciple of simple design, but there is also enough evidence that he didn't think customers could handle too many features on Apple Inc. products.
Home Depot is also slimming down, trimming 7, 000 jobs as it exits its Expo home design center business.
Knowing that both Jobs and Land were renowned for their design sensibility and demanding standards, I was curious how Tom navigated those challenging waters.
When the thousands of people who currently design, produce, and sell Lincolns lose their jobs, we will have to account it as yet another triumph of Progressivism.
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Although Jobs was noted as harnessing high quality design to power the success of Apple's products, Starck says that this product has little to do with Apple.
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