Quotes About Workplace

I am no different from so many professionals who go on maternity leave only towards the end of their pregnancy.

Many women are the lower-earning partner in a married couple, thanks in part to forces that relegate women to less remunerative professions and pay them less for the same work.

I support the free enterprise system, and I want companies to make money, but they shouldn't be reaping profits from the deaths of their employees or former employees.

Everyone is now praying at the altar of every last dollar of profits to please shareholders. If you invest in your people and treat them well, it's a different way to increase profits.

If banks earn more profits, the employees will benefit.

I've been on a lot of film sets, and I've always promised myself I wouldn't create a set where people dread coming to work.

I became a sales manager at Digital Equipment, promoted from within the sales team. My peers were less than excited that I had gotten the job, especially one of my male peers who said he just wasn't going to work for a woman.

Research shows that women at that mid level tend to get promoted based on performance, and men tend to get promoted based on potential.

Women need to find the courage to demand what they rightfully deserve. Women should be paid for the same work as their male counterparts, ask for promotions, and stand in their power in their place of employment, whether they are in a boardroom or in the movement.

Men don't avoid successful women because they're jealous; they often do it to avoid being in competition with her next job promotion.

When there are hiring decisions and promotion decisions to be made, people are hungry for data.

The more brutal it gets in the working world, the more appealing the prospect of having someone at home creating a sanctuary becomes. Increasingly couples, particularly with children, are making that tough choice, with one or other partner electing to embrace domestic duties while the other brings home the cash.

Although federal law prohibits companies with 15 or more employees from discriminating against pregnant job seekers, it can be quite hard for an ordinary woman to land a job if she lets prospective bosses know she is pregnant.

Whistleblowers deserve protection, but employees are not federal agents.

If players want to protest, let them do it on their own time and on their own dime.

It becomes difficult for a woman to become part of a lobby without eyebrows being raised. Even if she has proved herself with sheer stint of hard work, it will still be difficult for her to be accepted.

Why bad people - who are bad to other people - keep getting hired after they have proven their selves time and again is a mystery to me.

It could be said that, had it not already existed, corporations might have invented positive psychology themselves.

Autonomy in the workplace is highly valuable in neoliberal organizations because responsibility is no longer vertically distributed but horizontally spread and diffused.

The new work model might be one in which people do much of their day-to-day work remotely, and come into the office only for meetings, presentations, and brainstorming sessions. Routine

Yet bringing on new coworkers, and establishing trust and teamwork with them, is extremely hard to achieve on video.

la disminución de las horas de trabajo en la empresa, abriendo así la posibilidad de que los desempleados completen —y por qué no, aumenten— la jornada laboral. Esta sería otra forma de realizar una acción social y éticamente responsable con la sociedad y sus desempleados especialmente.

'NewsRadio' was fantastic.

There's no faster way to get on the good side of most engineers than making fun of product managers.