Google's antipoverty work centers on spreading information access, from Internet connections to legal rights.
Wage pressures and attrition are part of the reason IT-services companies are reaching out to establish work centers in places like Brazil and the Philippines.
In Amsterdam, the Smart Work Centers project began as a mayoral initiative to reduce commuting and grew within three years into a public-private network of more than 100 telepresence centers.
At the Southeast Asia Resource Action Center, our education work centers around disaggregating data to ensure that the full story of the Asian American and Pacific Islander community is told so that all children receive a quality education.
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According to Cisco, the u-City project will help Busan to boost economic development, increase revenue, encourage citizen engagement, reduce city operations costs, support brownfield revitalization (many of the Smart Work Centers will be built on brownfields), and strengthen city operations management and social resiliency.
Institutions such as public schools, places of worship, places of work, and various immigrant outreach centers can work collectively to instill a greater sense of civic pride and involvement with the city of residence.
An estimated 4 million people work in call centers in the U.S., while another 115, 000 work in India--up from only 3, 000 five years ago.
Eric Finkelstein, a health economist at the nonprofit RTI Institute who has done extensive work with the Centers for Disease Control to measure the health costs of obesity, worries that there are no incentives for employers to deal with the expanding waistlines of their workers.
We agreed to help by investing in agricultural business centers that work with local farmers.
And the folks who work and volunteer at centers give not only their time but also their hearts.
He did it with bold policies that fought fraud and emphasized work--welfare centers were renamed "job centers"--and relentless follow-through.
Much of the talk at this week's conference was how major urban centers could work toward adhering to the Kyoto Protocol, the existing environmental treaty that sets targets for nations to reduce greenhouse gas concentrations.
The firm, which has 285 clients, of which 70% are located in the US and Europe, has a backup plan to shift ongoing work to its development centers in Hyderabad and Poland if the situation gets any worse, said Natarajan.
In addition to Investments Connect, the online service, clients can work with advisors in call centers or a licensed banker at a branch.
If we take, for instance, the automobile industry, we see their design centers or their engineering centers coming to work in Mexico, using Mexican engineers, using Mexican technicians.
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The Assistant Director-General also acknowledged the importance of the work done by the commissions and centers associated to IHP in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Tesla is allowed to sub-contract service and repair work to in-state service centers, but even those requests are routed through California, which takes longer and is vastly more complicated.
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The principal activities being moved overseas are IT services, software development, call centers and back-office work.
Bright Horizons signs companies to long-term contracts that allow Bright Horizons to operate centers at or near their work sites.
Since it was founded in 1986, Bright Horizons has focused on signing companies to long-term contracts that allow Bright Horizons to operate centers at or near their work sites.
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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Recreation workers work at playgrounds and recreation areas, community centers, health clubs and fitness centers run by nonprofit organizations.
The effort is the result of decades of work by Rotary International, along with The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the WHO and UNICEF.
Google figures that soon enough the Internet and similarly-structured corporate data centers will host almost all our work software, along with all our videos, pictures, and music.
Home Depot has engaged in several efforts to give back to local communities, including most recently the Celebration of Service, a partnership between The Home Depot Foundation and The Mission Continues to work with veterans to improve homes and community centers.
"We do expect, obviously, in the coming months and years to make some of those really tough decisions where we would have to work really close with Congress to shut down data centers that frankly don't make sense, " said Vivek Kundra, the government's chief information officer.
To make same-day work, the orders must travel straight from the distribution centers to customers.
Eventually she teamed up with Sanders-Park, and the two started WorkNet Solutions and WorkNet International, sister career-consulting firms that work with institutions like trade schools, federally funded workforce centers and prisons, to help people with challenges in their personal stories find and land good jobs.
He eschews vacations and family visits for work, and is planning to expand his empire into bodybuilding centers and psychiatric counseling.
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