Everyone was making more money and, since the problems were no longer pressing, working at a more relaxed pace.
Several weeks went by as more pressing work was dealt with.
In ten years, he had never missed a homecoming, but this time he phoned his parents with a lie about pressing work.
One is a work most of us will never get to read, but it sounds like pressing work to its author.
The Trust arguably has more pressing work – such as safeguarding more land from Osborne-energised developers – than using charitable donations to memorialise the (unwilling) Onslows in phony state.
Singaporeans tend to hang around in the office till late often even if there is no pressing work to do because of the traditional perception that late workers are hard workers.
I'm willing to bet that almost any office worker would happily swap Webcam lighting that won't make you look, when you're on Skype, like you've "been out partying all night" (as Steelcase's head of design explained in Fast Company), for solutions to more pressing work issues like, I don't know, burnout or fear of losing health coverage.
But there was an underlying sense that she didn't want the party to become the cult of Caroline – that the very traits other parties, especially minor ones such as Ukip, rejoice in finding in one person (charisma, likability, authenticity, humour, humanness), were distractions from the pressing work of talking about the world at a meaningful level.
For busy leaders, there's always the temptation to keep your thoughts to yourself, often because there's so much other pressing work to do.
"The manifest reasons can be numerous… pressing work deadlines; internal threats of reorganization and layoff; external threats from competitors, shareholder actions, mergers or acquisitions".
