In 2009, a group of Stanford researchers released a study that showed how people who do heavy multitasking, keeping up several email conversations at once while texting, jumping from one website to the next and trying to work at the same time, do not pay attention as well as those who maintain a more streamlined work flow.

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Although many London-based staff receive a weighting allowance, most public sector staff are subject to the same rates of pay whether they work in the north or the south.

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The European Union, by contrast, forbids employers to pay less per hour for the same work when it is done part time than when it is done full time.

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At the same time, she sees a need to create new jobs at home, believing that there would not be the same incentive to work abroad if steady work with good pay was available within Indonesia.

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Or opt out of at-work insurance, join the exchange and get your government subsidy, pay about the same out of pocket, and have a real insurance plan.

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In terms of attention to the work, my own experience tells me that when people are together in the same room, they pay attention and focus on the task at hand with much of their cognitive capacity.

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In 1998, while fishing the Yellowstone River, he got an idea: There must be scads of small-town printers like me, in the same boat, as it were--big debt payments on the printing press and not enough work to pay it off.

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