Sentence examples for Unproductive hours from inspiring English sources

Their excessive and sometimes unproductive hours are part of what Coats calls "white-collar intensification" over the past 15 years.

From an IBM 720 line printer playing "Three Blind Mice" in 1954 to dot matrix printers playing love songs and Queen, mechanical noises coming from printers were slowly tamed, domesticated and controlled, and countless unproductive hours of programming time were spent in figuring out how to make those noises into musical notes, phrases and whole pieces for the enjoyment of the IT team.

But we all know of unproductive hours, and we sometimes see highly effective people working slacker hours and delivering workaholic results.

Sometimes I put my son down for a nap and I'm scarily productive: blog posts written, dishes washed, laundry folded; sometimes I haul my son into bed with me and we nap for a blissfully unproductive two hours, waking up to a list of unfinished to-dos.

It showed that AR patients were absent 3.6 days/year because of the former condition and were unproductive 2.3 hours per workday when experiencing symptoms.

For businesses, frequent airline delays mean that valuable employees are "sitting around for hours unproductive," he said, adding that businesses are also beginning to assess the impact of delays on employee morale.

There's nothing more frustrating, or unproductive, than wasting hours of your day in a meeting that has little relevance to what you do.

After a largely unproductive first half-hour that had seen Costa living off scraps of possession and neither Eden Hazard nor Pedro making any impression on the game, Chelsea suddenly pulled a goal back with a bolt from the blue from Nemanja Matic.

So is it any wonder I'd feel unproductive using my free hours merely to watch TV?

Ms. Soyster recalled the case of a company that tracked employees' movements within the building electronically and discovered that an especially unproductive employee spent excessive hours at work.

Travel experts say that while these security and immigration programs differ in many details, including price — Global Entry costs $100 for five years, while the private programs charge from about $150 to $180 a year — the result is the same to the business traveler: both can eliminate hours of unproductive time.