After a conversation about multitasking, one student became frustrated with a weekly work meeting where staff were more focused on their cellphones than the discussion, Mr. Hunter said.
They do everything in it, from deeply sharing their lives with friends and family (who may live in different cities or countries), to shopping and paying bills, communicating at work, meeting people after work, finding places to get a decent burrito, competing at sports and games, accessing health care, learning new things, or taking care of children and aging parents, ad infinitum.
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As most of his stocks are covered by few or no analysts, Dedio has to do his own work, meeting with managers, interviewing customers and reading product reviews.
Their work includes meeting arcane record-keeping requirements on workers' pay and conditions, and getting the right stamps on the right bits of paper for the sleepy customs service.
While progress has been made in these consultations, more work remains to be done, including addressing outstanding concerns with respect to the automotive and insurance sectors, addressing other non-tariff measures, and completing work regarding meeting the high TPP standards.
Seidl described his work at a meeting of the Society for Experimental Biology in London.
"We will do some intense work at the meeting in Kiruna to clarify this as fast as possible, " he said.
The UK prime minister's office said Mr Blair expressed his strong support for the inspectors and paid tribute to their work at his meeting with Mr Blix on Friday.
The task force began its work with a meeting of the full membership to develop a common understanding of the law, project goals, scope, roles and responsibilities, resource requirements, strategy, timeline, and deliverables.
Software company 37Signals, the darling of the bootstrapper movement, began spearheading an anti-meeting work ethos, and talking up its new workplace design ( check out the pictures here), which was practically company philosophy (as articulated by founder Jason Fried in his excellent book Rework for example) expressed as interior design.
If you do go through with the meeting while sick, do an extra bit of work to make sure the meeting goes well despite your foggy head.
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Have you cried in the work restroom or a meeting with your boss?
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When most people finish a meeting, work session or important human interaction, they spend almost no time evaluating how they performed.
Walk the last few blocks to work or to your meeting, even if it means getting off the train a stop early.
Speaking your mind about an unpopular issue in a meeting at work.
His work culminated in a meeting at Black Rock with CBS heads Michael Jordan and Mel Karmazin, who were worrying about the threat of satellites.
He said Pointfive's work, which will be a kiosk based on a black box flight recorder, will "work as both a meeting and information point and an experiential artwork exploring the passage of time".
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Geithner noted that derivatives trading firms were meeting to work out comprehensive infrastructure reforms for that market, including a central clearing house, reducing outstanding contracts, and regulatory changes including higher margin and collateral requirements.
One of the better dressed guys at work announced the other day in a meeting that he used to be the best dressed person at work, till I started working there.
Ms. Powell Jobs has continued to work behind the scenes, meeting, for example, with Republican Sen.
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Representatives from Fife Council will also attend the meeting with the Work and Pensions Secretary.
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John Griffiths made the comment during a Environment and Sustainability Committee meeting scrutinising his work on 27 June 2012.
Often Hayley will be meeting people who work on short term contracts or have almost impossible deadlines to meet.
Everyone has a different level of need for order, and everyone has a different daily work process and style of meeting deadlines.
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Oxytocin production is inhibited when there is too much cortisol (our stress hormone) AND testosterone (what we produce when competing and meeting deadlines at work).
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Gary Gensler, the head of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, told the audience at the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association meeting that the work was far from over.
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Harrison, who travels the world to seek out the last speakers of vanishing languages, has been describing his work here at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
In the new work he presented to the meeting, he looked systematically at the causes of bias in such research and confirmed that the results of observational studies are likely to be completely correct only 20% of the time.
Now they use Imaginatik to present questions and have participants work on solutions before the actual meeting.
Initially shy, he became at home when talking about his work and a promised 30 minute meeting turned into a two-and-a-half-hour tour.
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