Workweek

SAS Institute Inc. has consistently been ranked one of the best places to work over the years. From the short overview I have read about this company, I very much agree with how they have designed their management policies. There is often a desire to cut costs in order to increase profit, yet since SAS has cleverly focused on analytics, which is the most valuable and profitable area of their industry, they are eager to share the wealth they’ve earned with the people who work so hard to make it.…

a day. Add two to five hours of homework every night (or even more depending on the rigorousness of the course load) and then students are working 45 to 60 hours a week! Both of these numbers come close to or extremely exceed the average 47 hour workweek of an average American adult. In addition, students are developing more school-related depression, sleep problems, stomachaches, and headaches than ever before. We Students must all prepare to make sacrifices to further enhance our education,…

1. Specialization of physicians has had a positive and negative impact in our healthcare system. While they have allowed for much advancement in medical care, they have also been highly successful in patient care. However, specialization has also had an inefficient impact on our health care delivery system. Currently, there are far more physicians choosing to be specialist, there happens to be a shortage in primary physicians. Due to this, more patients are seeing specialty physicians. In my…

As the depression deepened, some governors had no choice but to close banks located in their states due to insolvency. Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) making banking a priority on March 5, 1933 he too called for a national bank holiday. Not only did FDR close all banks he also prohibited the exporting of gold. Congress working with the president in an act of bipartisanship passed the Emergency Banking Relief Act of 1933. This new law allowed the president to regulate foreign exchange and banking…

This is more hours than a normal employees fulltime workweek. Athlete’s sports schedules allow very little time for academic success or to hold a part time job. These are the two major issues being brought up by athletes, graduating with a degree they can use and getting a portion of the money they generate…

a week, as I was in several demanding AP and honours courses, in which they obliged. However, the following week, the schedule was posted and it revealed a hefty forty-hour week, identical to several other students who had also requested shorter workweeks. After confronting the person directly responsible for writing the schedule, I was promised to see my desired workload the next schedule, and they couldn’t offer me enough apologies. Next week, however, the story remained the same, this time I…

Many amazing things happened during the industrial revolution, but one of my favorite things that happened was the invention of the Model T and eventually the Model A. The inventor that made these things was Henry Ford. When he was a kid he used to take apart watches, to find how they worked then put them back together, when he was 13 he was a watch repairman. But he didn't want to stop there, when his mom died he left the farm he lived at, he said that he never liked farm work, just the mom…

Teachers all across America are becoming dissatisfied and disapprove their salaries. Since teachers are not making as much as they should be, the outcome could be very disappointing and fatal to some schools. This idea that teachers are not making enough as they should be started in the 1800’s. During this time period, kids in America had low test scores and most of the blame was put toward teachers. Of course these kids test scores only got worse, and teachers salaries decreased as the…

There were many significant labor strikes through the history of strikes in the United States. I chose the Textile Mill Strike of 1934; This strike particularly intrigued me because the Unions and labor laws were in their infancy stage and made a lot of mistakes along the way. This strike involved politicians, laws, and even touched the President at the time personally. This strike also affected the Northeastern part of the United States which is where we reside. First let us start with a…

to take unpaid, job-protected leave for specified family and medical reasons with continuation of group health insurance coverage under the same terms and conditions as if the employee had not taken leave.” A employee may qualify to have twelve workweeks of unpaid leave if the employee qualifies under any of the given exceptions: if an employee has given birth ,…