Sentence examples for office innovations from inspiring English sources

Like many such office innovations, it's tremendously forward-thinking, and totally undermined by psychology research.

Equally important, the new Office innovations are needed to convince customers that they still need Microsoft.

As Executive Vice President for Network and Corporate Affairs for the Housing Partnership Network (HPN), Ms. Walsh directs HPN's domestic and international peer exchange and manages HPN's policy office, innovations team and corporate governance.

But she has a soft spot for practically every other American office innovation, including top-to-bottom political correctness, which she defends ferociously: "The pejorative term 'political correctness' was adapted to express disapproval of the enlargement of etiquette to cover all people, in spite of this being a principle to which all Americans claim to subscribe".

However, when they return to their office "innovation" is little more than small tweaks to existing business models.

PricewaterhouseCoopers is far from the only company trying to take advantage of innovations in office design that allow for greater density.

A rather recent innovation in office design is known as office landscape (from the German word Bürolandschaft).

In Dr. Gerdes's office, the innovations include daily clinics at lunchtime called QuickSick, in which patients who have phoned up that morning can come in for routine problems requiring immediate attention, like an upper respiratory infection, and are guaranteed they will be examined, treated and on their way within a half-hour.

In the current New Yorker, James Surowiecki argues the opposite, that having people working together and sharing ideas in the same office fosters innovation.

Nina S. Rees, the deputy under secretary for the federal Education Department's office of innovation and improvement, said federal authorities do not compel schools to accept transfer students if the influx would cause safety problems.

"The lag between the skills of the patent office and innovation has been there a long time," said Philip Scranton, a Rutgers professor who specializes in the history of industry and technology.