And firms have increasingly adopted open plans and even unassigned seating to get workers mingling more widely.

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In Philadelphia, for example, Glaxo's 1, 300 Center City employees will move to an entirely unassigned office by next spring.

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Huntington's chief administrative judge, Charlie Andrus, said he was notified on four occasions of Mr. Daugherty either taking cases assigned to other judges or taking unassigned cases.

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Also, if voters are not familiar with all candidates, and do not rank them all, the unassigned points must be divided up evenly between the unranked candidates.

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It is expected to propose vesting all unassigned rights in the sub-salt area (62% of the total) in a new, wholly state-owned, company which would partner Petrobras or any other firm that signs exploration contracts.

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At the one processing sites, there were more than four times as many unassigned offers from self-employed taxpayers (those are typically more complicated than wage earner cases) and 37% of the offers were more than six months old.

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In a survey of 950 companies, the International Facility Management Association, a trade group for office-facility managers, found 60% had some unassigned workspaces in their offices, and about half said the number of employees using the unassigned space had increased in the past two years.

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