Quotes About Workforce

The bottom line is that while automation is eliminating many jobs in the economy that were once done by people, there is no sign that the introduction of technologies in recent years is creating an equal number of well-paying jobs to compensate for those losses.

Everyone in the semiconductor industry, everyone in the technology industry, would benefit from more diversity in the business.

Technology's always taken jobs out of the system, and what you hope is that technology's going to put those jobs back in, too. That's what we call productivity.

Morris Kleiner has calculated that the percentage of jobs subject to occupational licensing has expanded from 10 percent in 1970 to 30 percent in 2008.

unemployed people described "have been superannuated less by age than by newly invented machines.

Thus it was that, beginning in about the ninth century, the growing monastic estates came to resemble well-organized and stable firms that pursued complex commercial activities within a relatively free market, investing in productive activities involving a hired workforce, guided by anticipated and actual returns.

Reproaching his slave carpenters, he said, "There is not to be found so idle a set of rascals." Of a slave named Betty who worked as a spinner in the mansion, he complained that "a more lazy, deceitful and impudent hussy is not to be found in the United States.

When he doubled the length of trains without expanding their crews, trainmen walked off the job in protest.

The wealth of society is its stock of productive labor.

Because of technological breakthroughs, the society will need fewer and fewer unskilled laborers.

In 1830, America's farmers comprised seventy-one percent of the workforce. Yet, in modern times, this number had plummeted to less than two percent. Improved automation of farms had impacted a greater percentage of the workforce than autonomous vehicles ever could. Even so, society had readily absorbed the loss of these farming jobs, which had morphed into opportunities in other sectors.

The boomers' biggest impact will be on eliminating the term 'retirement' and inventing a new stage of life... the new career arc.

Between 1910 and 1920, the percentage of married women who worked had nearly doubled, and the number of married women in the professions had risen by 40 percent, Collier noted. "The question, therefore, is no longer, should women combine marriage with careers, but how?"23

In 1880, clerks made up less than 5 percent of the nation's workforce, nearly all of them men; by 1910, more than four million Americans worked in offices, and half were women. By 1920, most Americans lived and worked in cities.

Hire diverse but like-minded people. An inclusive workforce engaged in a shared mission fosters better, more creative solutions to problems, leading to sustainable growth.

People are so cheap. Everyone wants quality, no one wants to pay for it. Here's the suburban dream-- to hire great workers who are such meek morons that they don't have the guts to ask for a living wage.

Las plazas universitarias, los puestos relacionados con los derechos civiles o los cargos de responsabilidad en el Gobierno y la industria no se asignaban a los más trabajadores ni a los más capaces, sino a los más leales.

The McKinsey Global Institute predicts that by 2020 the world will face a "skills gap" of nearly 40 million people, meaning that employers will need that many workers with a college degree or higher than the global labor force can supply.

The roles do get fewer as you get older. That's the same for all professions, there's fewer roles for people later in life. I don't think it should be like that because as long as you are able to do your job then people should keep working with you. It shouldn't come down to age.

The Internet promises to open new channels for worker-firm communications. What are the consequences of this opening?

Immigrants create an engine of economic prosperity.

Immigrants greatly contribute to our country's economic prosperity.

Cheap labor explains why there is so much resistance to protecting America's border.

With the changing economy, no one has lifetime employment. But community colleges provide lifetime employability.