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And it is not just individuals: the web makes it easier for companies to rent out spare offices and idle machines, too.

Many people's homes now have more powerful, and more flexible, devices than their offices do; consumer gadgets and online services are smarter and easier to use than most companies'ystems

carbon emissions come from heating, cooling and powering our homes, offices and other buildings.

Companies soon discovered that work could be done at home and submitted online, so a whole new class of telecommuters began to earn a living from home offices unshaven and wearing pajamas (睡衣).

Even in the age of open-plan offices and social networks some work is best left to the individual.

Loosely managed teams can become hotbeds of distraction—employees routinely complain that they can't get their work done because they are forced to spend too much time in meetings or compelled to work in noisy offices.

Songdo's backers contend that it's still early, and business space is filling up—about 70 percent of finished offices are now occupied.

The floor-to-ceiling windows of his company's offices overlook Songdo Central Park, with a canal full of kayaks and paddle boats.

They hold the highest political offices from Thailand to Brazil, Costa Rica to Australia.

If there was a greater coordination of technology transfer offices within regions and a simultaneous investment in the scale and functions of our graduate schools, universities could, and should, play a key role in positioning the UK for the next growth cycle.

By establishing more regional technology transfer offices

He sees a role for pediatricians to talk with parents about this, but believes the messaging must extend far beyond pediatricians' offices.

In the UK, new studies are in development and social scientists are regularly spotted in British government offices.

These adjustments encourage employers in the knowledge and talent industries to keep their offices downtown.

Considering how much time people spend in offices, it is important that work spaces be well designed.

Office designers' response to this change has been to move open-plan areas to more desirable locations within the office and crate fewer formal private offices.

Offices and work spaces often are not assigned to a given person on a permanent basis.

The design industry has moved away from a fixed offices setup and created more flexible "strategic management environments".

We who labor in clean shirts in offices don't have the abilities that motorheads have.

Even in traditional offices, "the lingua franca of corporate America has gotten much more emotional and much more right-brained than it was 20 years ago," said Harvard Business School professor Nancy Koehn.

Soon after his father's release from prison, Dickens got a better job as errand boy in law offices.

The first executive offices were constructed between 1799 and 1820.

The sensible place to build new houses, factories and offices is where people are, in cities and towns where infrastructure is in place.

These kids are going to be surrounded by computers-in their pockets, in their offices, in their homes -for the rest of their lives.