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The company charges $5 a point, which equates to roughly $5 for an hour of babysitting, way below the typical childcare rate that's between $15 and $30 an hour. During the pandemic, parents using the app have not been charged any points.
Tami Abdollah • dot.LA
You’ll start at 10 a.m. and end at 5 p.m., with an hour-long lunch in between. That’s right: There are only six working hours in the typical sprint day.
Jake Knapp • Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days
But to earn those guaranteed wages, drivers needed to accept 90% of ride requests and be online 50 out of every 60 minutes worked.
Sarah Kessler • Gigged: The Gig Economy, the End of the Job and the Future of Work
We really didn’t pay more per hour than union scale, but we gave people hours. Because union scale is so high, the supermarkets are very stingy with hours and will do anything to avoid paying overtime. I simply built overtime into the system: everyone was to work a five day, forty-eight-hour week. Actually, because of fluctuations in the business,
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Office hours are the standard measure of the number of hours you’ll work where there’s a “butt in a seat,” i.e. actual work being done. We tend to work more office hours as our career progresses toward the peak. Mind hours are the number of hours that your mind and nervous system are preoccupied with work because of the stresses of it.
Andy Johns • How to know when to stop
You have about 80,000 hours in your career: 40 hours per week, 50 weeks per year, for 40 years.