Sentence examples for workplace pool from inspiring English sources

It was just a friendly workplace pool at a New Jersey nursing home, as 19 of the 20 co-workers tell it: Each chipped in $2 to $5, and one bought the lottery tickets.

As lottery officials undertook an investigation, The Star-Ledger of Newark published an article on Saturday on the workplace pool, quoting participants as saying they had been betrayed and cheated by the person who had taken their money for the lottery tickets.

But that same afternoon, the officials said they received a letter from Mr. Guerino saying he represented 19 workers who had been in a workplace pool at the Newark Health and Extended Care Facility and who were claiming equal shares in the prize.

Many workplaces have a "pool" where workers wager money on their bracket predictions.

Sixteen workplaces were recruited from a pool of 97 workplaces and randomly assigned to intervention and control arms (eight in each).

"The workplace is a breeding pool for learning about and sharing new technologies," he added.

In desperation I logged onto oDesk -- an online workplace with a large pool of talented freelancers -- and ran a search.

He started a program called Art in the Workplace, in which companies pooled their resources and bought artworks which traveled around to workers' rest and canteen areas.

As New York City officials begin pondering an ordinance that would ban smoking in workplaces like bars, offices, pool halls, bingo parlors and bowling alleys, the experience of Los Angeles and some of its approximately 3,000 bars may be instructive.

These scenes, and the inevitable music montage showing them playing with the baby in the park, the pool and at their workplaces, are cheesy as hell, but, thanks largely to Selleck and Danson, sweetly effective.

The business review site Yelp offers a whole suite of workplace blandishments to keep workers on site; pool tables, table-tennis, a videogame room, and perhaps most enticingly the KegMate.