Word: workdays
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...budget, raised salaries and begun rebuilding roads. Even in al-Bireh, which Hamas has governed for less than a month, there are signs of improvement: the streets are being cleaned and teams of men last week were installing stoplights in the rain hours after the end of the workday. The locals are impressed. "Fatah has not achieved anything for me," says Haytham Hammad, 22, a corporal in the Palestinian security forces, over a cup of coffee and a cigarette in an al-Bireh cafe. "Hamas is capable of taking back the rights of the Palestinian people-daily rights like...
...It’s a completely different lifestyle—I was living in a cabin on a mountain,” she says. Rather than mastering key commands in Excel and taking midday Starbucks breaks, Kleinschmidt quickly began to exercise a new skill set. Her workday included cleaning up the trail, digging, water drainage, and moving rocks around...
...constant splintering and diversion of our attention wastes time and money. In a study of 1,000 officeworkers from top managers on down, Basex, an information-technology research firm in New York City, found that interruptions now consume an average of 2.1 hours a day, or 28% of the workday. The two hours of lost productivity included not only unimportant interruptions and distractions but also the recovery time associated with getting back on task, according to a Basex report titled "The Cost of Not Paying Attention," released in September. Estimating an average salary of $21 an hour for "knowledge workers...
...work interruption is not an electronic signal but rather a human being stopping by. It's the same reason a personal call feels welcome even when you are superbusy. We are social creatures, and to do our best work, we need to set aside time in the workday to connect with others--and also to break free from our checklist and just think...
...video, this dissonant pairing takes on a whole new life. The video starts with some “Call On Me” aerobics, before devolving into contorted-face “Windowlicker” territory. We then meet our unreliable narrator, a British factory worker who finds his workday surrounded by orange robot arms that assemble an unknown product...