For me, Google Now guessed I wanted to see local weather and directions from home to work (or from work to home, depending on the time of day).
The maps app on your smartphone has one primary concern: getting you from 106 Main Street to 301 Sunny Lane, or from work to home, or from home to Taco Bell.
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Of all survey respondents, 90% reported that they instructed employees to work from home, and 21% told employees to work remotely.
The results overwhelmingly indicate that, rather than alleviating the stress and longer hours of commuting in and out of the office, working from home causes work to seep into home life.
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Is the American Dream of working your way up from a tiny cubicle to a luxurious corner office, being replaced by the idea of being able to work from home in your pajamas, thanks to advances in communications and project management technology?
New research from The University of Texas at Austin shows that employees who work from home hoping to take it easy (or save on gas as the case may be) work an average of five to seven extra hours a week.
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Many employees who work from home apparently would not have taken the job at Yahoo had they not been allowed to work from home.
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Should a firm that hires you to work from home be given a tax break if that work used to be handled overseas?
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 times, the best way to convince employers that you can work from home is to be an all-star at the office and show you have the ability to succeed with limited supervision.
Some observers suggest that she may simply want many people who work from home to leave Yahoo!
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Many women (and some men) work from home to allow themselves the flexibility to pick up kids from school.
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Allowing people to work from home gives people some valuable time back to put into their family structure, their marriages and relationships.
When you work from home, it can be easy to let your work and home lives blend together.
They may like to work from home few days a week, or go to the gym in the middle of the day.
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"Employers need to do everything they can to allow staff to work from home and ensure that those that do manage to travel to work are well looked after, with overnight accommodation if necessary, " he said.
Redditch made the points safe on 71 minutes when Owen Story profited from more good work by Beswick to fire home from the right-hand side of the penalty area.
There is an unfortunate stereotype beginning to form around those that work from home and I like to call it The Pajama Effect.
Other things that can result from too much time away from home due to work were: health problems (63%), rebellious kids (54%) and an increased probability of affairs (45%).
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According to this article in the Huffington Post, the work from home ban extends to many people hired with the assurance that they could work remotely.
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Many areas of the company will allow you to work from home if needed and they are very flexible with allowing you to take time off whenever you want to.
Instead, they are looking for what Leinberger calls "walkable urbanism" -- both small communities and big cities characterized by efficient mass transit systems and high density developments enabling residents to walk virtually everywhere for everything -- from home to work to restaurants to movie theaters.
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Steve Okiri has to leave Nairobi during the week, travelling hours from home to work in a desolate place.
But a company which does value employee contributions and invests in their development make become a more pleasant place to work when it offers employees perks like flex time, work from home, access to fitness centers in addition to fair compensation and benefits.
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If you decided to stay home from work today because your psychic told you to, would you tell your boss the truth or make up an excuse?
And what if that car, which also knows how long it will take you to get home from work, could instruct your household thermostat to crank up the heat 10 minutes before your scheduled arrival?
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These include the freedom to manage atypical hours, work from home or take time off to volunteer at a favorite charity.
The mayor urged residents to stay home from work or school if they are sick, and to get flu shots.
There are four teachers who teach up to eight hours a week and can work from home or anywhere with access to a computer.
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