With millions of Americans employed at retail or working in office buildings, this once sleepy industry is smartly innovating and benefiting from new markets and technology.
The company wants your computers to be running Windows, your users to be working in Office, your data to be stored in their version of SQL and your applications to be written by Microsoft certified developers.
Another health example: A few years ago I noticed I was getting migraine headaches while working in my office.
In 1974, the then chancellor, Willy Brandt, resigned after a Stasi spy was found to be working in his office.
This is a mode of employment many vets find a more natural segue from service as opposed to working in an office behind a desk.
This is an outcome of decades of working in a physical office location with employees and peers.
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Mr. Workman drew comparisons to a mad scientist, working in a chaotic office strewn with papers and avoiding meetings.
Gone are the days of working in a traditional office setting, where cubicles separate colleagues and the only social interactions occur around the water cooler.
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"Royal Mail has concerns about the working conditions for our four members of staff working in the mail office at Sanquhar Post Office branch, " she said.
During the exam CHLI dental director Stanley Golden, who was working in his Brentwood office, chatted with me via videoconference on the wide-screen TV in front of me.
During the exam CHLI dental director Stanley (nyse: SXE - news - people ) Golden, who was working in his Brentwood office, chatted with me via videoconference on the wide-screen TV in front of me.
They are evenly split among operations in the U.S., Europe and Asia, with Tricoire working out of an office in Hong Kong.
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So when should a company draw a line on working remotely or in the office?
Middletown Mayor Robert Reid still keeps a working Geiger counter in his office, a few miles upstream from the plant.
He has spent much of his first year in office working toward burnishing what he has called his nation's diminished stature in the globe.
The plaintiffs claimed they were exposed to noxious gas fumes while pregnant and working in a southwest Mississippi office building located where a Texaco station once stood.
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But if you ever get the chance to talk to folks who turned out at our rallies, and crowded along a rope line in a high school gym, or saw folks working late at a campaign office in some tiny county far away from home, you'll discover something else.
Heiser is out of Perryville, back on her feet, and working for Televerde in the Phoenix office.
Will the Social Office be working in conjunction with the Secret Service now?
Dhingra said he won't consider working in a high-rise office building again.
For many knowledge workers, working virtually is already a fact, whether they happen to be working from home, in the office, or elsewhere.
While many of those working in videogames come into the office boasting advanced degrees in computer science and fine art, a game tester can walk in with just a passion for playing games.
Imagine you are working at home and your company gives you the choice of either working 9 to 5 in the office or moving to another state where you will be allowed to telecommute.
Having done both he does not recommend working from home exclusively, recognising the benefits of interacting with people in the office and the pitfalls of working long hours at home to keep up.
Eight out of 10 workers questioned in a survey by Office Angels recruitment consultancy admitted working an average 25 hours extra in the weeks surrounding their break.
These employees, whether in an office or working at home, will not create a new strategy for Yahoo.
For months, the General Services Administration has been working to set up office space in the building for 500 people.
Nato, meanwhile, is working to strengthen its liaison office in Moscow, and Russia is expected to beef up its presence at Nato headquarters.
He wrote some of the talking-baby scripts while working alone late at night in his office, sipping a little Oban whiskey and listening to Radiohead on his iPod, he says.
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