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Figuratively speaking.


Average length of a weekly staff meeting, according to according to
prep.
1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians.

2. In keeping with: according to instructions.

3.
 a survey for GroupSystems Corp.: 50 minutes

Percentage of workers who say they don't take minutes for most meetings: 59

Percentage who say action items are documented only sometimes or not at all: 56

Percentage who say input from the discussions is used only sometimes or rarely when implementing action items: 68

Percentage of customers who say bad customer service or rude rude - [WPI] 1. Badly written or functionally poor, e.g. a program that is very difficult to use because of gratuitously poor design decisions. Opposite: cuspy.

2. Anything that manipulates a shared resource without regard for its other users in such a way as to cause a
 treatment by a store employee reflects the most poorly on the store employee, according to a survey by BIGresearch: 14

Percentage of customers who say bad customer service or rude treatment by store employee reflects the most poorly on the store (the whole company): 25

Percentage of Canadian Canadian (kənā`dēən), river, 906 mi (1,458 km) long, rising in NE New Mexico. and flowing E across N Texas and central Oklahoma into the Arkansas River in E Oklahoma.  CEOs who classify clas·si·fy  
tr.v. clas·si·fied, clas·si·fy·ing, clas·si·fies
1. To arrange or organize according to class or category.

2. To designate (a document, for example) as confidential, secret, or top secret.
 themselves as workaholics, according to a survey by Compas: 56

Percentage who say their families would classify them as workaholics: 75

Rank of Newfoundlanders and Labradorians, at 38.4 hours per week, as the people working the most number of hours per week, according to the 2005 Statistics Canada Labour Force survey: 1

Hours worked in Ontario, tied for eighth in the country: 36.5

Percentage of Canadians who keep their resumes up to date, according to a survey by Watson-Wyatt: 66

Percentage who are committed to staying with their present employer: 49

Compiled by John MacIntyre John Macintyre (born 1857 - died 1928) was a doctor who set up the world's first radiology department at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary, in Glasgow, Scotland. Originally trained as an electrical engineer, he later graduated in 1882 from the University of Glasgow with the Bachelor of  
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Date:May 1, 2006
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