From surgeons making 3-D printed replacement bones to archaeologists making replicas of cuneiform tablets, the technology has a huge potential for allowing scientists to pursue their work with more flexibility and much lower costs.
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Because her school is so small, Rowan had the time and flexibility to work with Taylor.
The reforms provided instead for fixed, finite, block grants to the states, with broad state flexibility to adopt changes to get dependents out to work.
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Specifically, it would allow firms and employees flexibility and incentivize firms to work with their workers to determine the rules that matter to them, rather than be bound by a top down prescription of rules from the government.
Giving workers flexibility to integrate personal life with work is viewed as antithetical to boosting performance.
How you will be flexible with your flexibility should circumstances require you to work in the office on one of your scheduled remote work days.
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Owning a family-run business has many advantages, like getting to work with the most important people in your life, convenience, flexibility and lower employment costs.
The struggle to find balance is often more challenging for low-income parents, who are more likely to have jobs with little flexibility, face mandatory overtime and unpredictable work hours and lack critical benefits like paid sick and vacation leave.
When it comes to juggling work and a personal life, Krill believes in having it all, but with flexibility.
While most organizations continue to think of flexibility as an accommodation grafted onto existing work practices, Maitland and Thomson break the mold with the assumption that all jobs can be done flexibly.
Sure, it would be great if jobs came with a menu of possible work arrangements, but flexibility is still something that you have to make happen like it or not.
This morning, former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty appeared on ABC and discussed the letter he signed (pdf) along with 28 other Republican Governors asking for more flexibility administering programs that move Americans from welfare to work.
Her focus is finding the business benefits of flexibility and training both management and employees to deal with the cultural changes needed to make it work.
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Factors such as work life balance, workload, flexibility, and workplace stress could carry more weight in workers decisions to stay with current employers, or jump ship.
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The Polaroid iM1836 camera will also offer consumers the flexibility to explore their creativity with interchangeable lenses, since all existing Micro Four Thirds system lenses will work with the iM1836 with an adapter.
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