Quotes About Workplace

You can't credibly promote the virtues of reasonable hours, plentiful rest, and a healthy lifestyle to employees if you're doing the opposite as the boss.

If you're pitching your boss to let you work from home a few days a week, a common rebuff is how envious your coworkers would be if you were granted this special privilege. Why, it simply wouldn't be fair! We all need to be equally, miserably unproductive at the office and suffer in unity!

The best companies aren't families. They're supporters of families. Allies of families. They're there to provide healthy, fulfilling work environments so that when workers shut their laptops at a reasonable hour, they're the best husbands, wives, parents, siblings, and children they can be.

Without profit, something is always on fire. When companies talk about burn rates, two things are burning: money and people. One you're burning up, one you're burning out.

If you don't clearly communicate to everyone else why someone was let go, the people who remain at the company will come up with their own story to explain it.

Following group chat at work is like being in an all-day meeting with random participants and no agenda.

How often have you heard someone say "It's crazy at work"? Maybe you've even said it yourself. For many, "It's crazy at work" has become their normal. But why so crazy? There are two primary reasons: (1) The workday is being sliced into tiny, fleeting work moments by an onslaught of physical and virtual distractions. And (2) an unhealthy obsession with growth at any cost sets towering, unrealistic expectations that stress people out.

In almost every situation, the expectation of an immediate response is an unreasonable expectation. Yet with more and more real-time communication tools creeping into daily work—especially instant-messaging tools and group chat—the expectation of an immediate response has become the new normal.

Waiting it out is just fine. The sky won't fall, the company won't fold. It'll just be a calmer, cooler, more comfortable place to work. For everyone.

In thirty years' time, as technology moves forward even further, people are going to look back and wonder why offices ever existed. —RICHARD BRANSON, FOUNDER OF VIRGIN GROUP

If it's constantly crazy at work, we have two words for you: Fuck that. And two more: Enough already.

If it's constantly crazy at work, we have two words for you: Fuck that.

pulling seven people away from their work for an hour is worth seven hours of lost productivity.

It was the discomfort of knowing two people doing the same work at the same level were being paid differently that led us to reform how we set salaries. That's how we ended up throwing out individual negotiations and differences in pay, and going with a simpler system.

You can absolutely run a great business without a single goal. You don't need something fake to do something real. And if you must have a goal, how about just staying in business? Or serving your customers well? Or being a delightful place to work? Just because these goals are harder to quantify does not make them any less important.

People can't get work done at work anymore. That turns life into work's leftovers. The doggie bag. What's worse is that long hours, excessive busyness, and lack of sleep have become a badge of honor for many people these days. Sustained exhaustion is not a badge of honor, it's a mark of stupidity.

So, coming into the office just means that people have to put on pants. There's no guarantee of productivity.

Following group chat at work is like being in an all-day meeting with random participants and no agenda. It's completely exhausting.

That's because offices have become interruption factories. A busy office is like a food processor—it chops your day into tiny bits. Fifteen minutes here, ten minutes there, twenty here, five there.

Stress is passed from organization to employee, from employee to employee, and then from employee to customer.

There are two fundamental ways not to be ignored at work. One is to make noise. The other is to make progress, to do exceptional work.

Companies love to declare "We're all family here." No, you're not.

Have you heard about those companies whose benefits include game-console rooms, cereal snack bars, top-chef lunches and dinners, nap rooms, laundry service, and free beer on Fridays? It seems so generous, but there's also a catch: You can't leave the office.

When you treat people like children, you get children's work. Yet that's exactly how a lot of companies and managers treat their employees.