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Some of that cost is justified by employees' improved productivity on the road. "I'm no longer a bottleneck [when traveling]," Gillespie says. Mallick says he doesn't even set his out-of-office message anymore for short trips. For well-paid knowledge workers, the cost of wi-fi is even more readily absorbed by the extra time they willingly spend on work at home. Because wi-fi makes it so easy to jump on the corporate network from your living room, more employees are working longer hours. Mallick, for instance, says that since he got wi-fi installed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business Unplugged | 11/3/2003 | See Source »

There’s a new gripe floating around campus, and this one is even less legitimate than the rest. At issue are the high turn-away rates of Harvard’s creative writing classes; such a tight bottleneck, say the complainers, is just another example of Harvard denying its undergraduates the opportunities that lured them here in the first place...

Author: By Simon W. Vozick-levinson, | Title: Dear Sir or Madame, Will You Read My Book | 4/2/2003 | See Source »

...have shuttle buses to the medical school, but they are slow and generally unpleasant,” Jacobsen says. “And with only a few tiny bridges connecting Cambridge to Allston that already have bottleneck traffic, we are looking for better solutions [than] shuttle buses for Allston.” For the Moment

Author: By Alex L. Pasternack and Lauren A.E. Schuker, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Harvard Fords the River | 2/3/2003 | See Source »

...move will increase the number of hygienists from nine to eighteen and UHS officials say they hope it will ease the unexpected bottleneck that emerged when nearly twice as many students as usual signed up for UHS’ dental insurance program...

Author: By Philip Sherrill, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: University To Double Dental Hygiene Staff | 3/12/2002 | See Source »

...lecture: I run into student volunteers collecting for the Red Cross in front of the Science Center. One holds out a plastic jug, swollen already, and I press a couple of green bills through the bottleneck. I nod quietly to myself, impressed with the campus’ philanthropic spirit...

Author: By Terry E-E Chang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: American Pie: Changing the Recipe | 9/21/2001 | See Source »

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