Quotes About Workplace

I think if you have a two-story office and you hire someone who's handicapped, it might be reasonable to let him have an office on the first floor rather than the government saying you have to have a $100,000 elevator.

I can recall an instance where I was in a meeting at work giving a presentation in front of my board of directors. I was taking questions at the end and someone asks, 'Is that your hair real?' The man then reached out and started stroking my hair. It was completely bizarre to me.

Companies must put infrastructure in place to support their female employees and ensure that they receive the benefits of male and female leadership.

We must ensure not only that everyone receives equal pay for equal work, but that they have the opportunity to do equal work.

Like millions of other Americans, I receive health insurance through my employer.

I've been harassed or on the receiving end of sexist and inappropriate behavior almost every place I've ever worked.

Throughout the nineteen-seventies and eighties, especially during periods of recession, employees were moved from offices to cubicles.

A company has a greater responsibility than making money for its stockholders. We have a responsibility to our employees to recognize their dignity as human beings.

People recognize me, but they don't know where from. Today I was in the elevator and somebody asked me if I worked for his company.

They're hard workers, they're really smart but they're not very good about marching into their boss's offices and saying 'I need a raise!... Women tend to have the attitude that, 'if I put my head down, I work really hard, I'll get recognized.'

I have had the privilege of working closely with some of the greatest women in this country. The idea that their contributions would not be recognized at the same level as a male colleague is abhorrent to me. I will do everything in my power to help right this wrong, and finally achieve pay parity in America.

Corporate America is drowning in meetings. To make one thing clear, I am not against communication. Quick one-on-ones can be extremely effective. I am talking about those hour-long recurring meetings, devoid of a clear agenda, and attended by many. I dread them.

I get so carried away in interviews and deliver 1,500-word treatises, then find it's been reduced to something pithier but also not quite accurate. Although I imagine there are people I work with who wish they could edit me every day.

The experience of seeing your entire team made redundant is eye-opening.

What's wrong with trying hard and showing up and being good at your job? We really need to look at ourselves and say we need to reevaluate this. We need to reevaluate that women who ask for a pay raise or ask for a promotion - it's actually an okay thing. It's okay to be ambitious; it's okay to be over-prepared.

It's difficult for me to work with women, because I find that direct references are made back to me too fast. Working with men, it gives it a little distance.

When I became an actor, it was disappointing to show up on set and be handed a coffee. You know. I'd pick up cables and get told off.

The ambitious women usually work twice as hard to make up the handicap of being usually left out of the chummy male bonding that takes place over liquor.

If I had an office job, I'd probably be doing the exact same thing I'm doing on television: hanging out by the water cooler and talking to co-workers about their relationships.

Our employees chose SK on belief that they will be happier working here and that the company will make the society happier.

When employees are happy, they are your very best ambassadors.

There's so many careers that didn't happen because women are like, 'I can't deal with this harassment. I'm going to leave this industry.'

I've never experienced sexual harassment at work, but I 100% believe and support everyone that has come forward, because I'm very lucky that it has never happened to me.

When women are told that sexual harassment is 'part of the job' or when assistants of both sexes enable harassing behavior, they have bought into the culture that says such behavior is not just permissible, it is a desirable expression of power.