With funding slashed, government agencies have been forced to cut back programs and send employees home on unpaid leave.
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The superintendent of his small office building offered to drive him and a handful of employees home, dropping them off at various locations in Manhattan.
The quake was also felt in Qatar and Bahrain, according to a CNN journalist in Abu Dhabi, who said some businesses have sent their employees home for the day.
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Information is parsed according to client needs and sent directly to the affected local areas, employees and home office.
Many companies are having some of their employees stay home.
Labor supporters say this creates a "captive audience, " but these meetings are one of management's few opportunities to address workers, since companies are barred from the sort of outreach allowed to union organizers -- such as visiting employees at home.
Far from solving the problem of nursing home employees without benefits, ending or severely cutting back Medicare and Medicaid would mean far less money going into the nursing home industry.
Of all survey respondents, 90% reported that they instructed employees to work from home, and 21% told employees to work remotely.
The work from home Yahoo employees, and the fact they work from home, has nothing to do with the lack of strategy, innovation and growth at Yahoo.
Often, it's the need to hire employees that forces home-based entrepreneurs to rent space elsewhere.
On investigation, 9.5% of the increase in productivity was down to home employees working more hours.
The company has also arranged for fresh fish to be delivered to the office for employees to take home.
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Boston Mayor Thomas Menino urged companies in the city to let their employees work from home if possible during the storm.
When it comes to hiring employees, some home-based entrepreneurs say there isn't enough space or that it feels too invasive to have staff in the house.
Its vision was to build a computing environment that closely resembles the social networking experience that its employees have at home, but with a business focus.
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According to this way of thinking, Mayer has assumed that the personal lives and identities of her work-at-home employees are uniformly at odds with her corporate goals.
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However, the impetus for employees working from home or a remote office is often rooted in company-centric benefits like cost savings, productivity gains, or access to global talent.
Make certain that only your most trusted employees have your home address, and if they are terminated or they quit, you may consider changing your locks at your home.
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And knowing the competitive culture of Silicon Valley, I doubt that any of the Yahoo employees working from home are limiting themselves to four hours of work before lunch and four after.
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At Facebook, employees can take home a free dinner or, if working late, their families can come in to eat with them, leading to a regular sight of children in the campus cafeteria.
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They continue to function based on the same old same old: Maximizing shareholder value and giving executives compensation packages with bonuses that are not strictly tied to performance remain higher priorities than hiring and paying their employees fairly at home and abroad.
There are other arguments to be made about allocation of resources, whether or not the nursing home industry should exist in its current form, and so forth, but arguing that Medicare is crowding out benefits to nursing home employees is flimsy at best.
It seems to me that most IT leaders are preoccupied with maintaining the existing IT infrastructure, tackling daily exigencies like outgunning the latest security threats, rapidly delivering products and services to the business, and figuring out how and if to support the myriad devices employees bring from home.
So when I am asked if I work at home, perhaps I should not take it as a polite way of asking me if my company is so small that I need to work out of my house, but rather if I am part of a modern organization that has its employees work from home.
My teenage employees were being sent home with nosebleeds, and some of them were even fainting.
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Now it is home to employees of the U.S. embassy and the Iraqi government.
And some, like Accurate Biometrics, monitor computer use of employees, both at home and in the office.
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta is another company that is mixing traditional workers with employees who work from home.
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