Quotes About Workforce

Thus as foreign mining and logging companies open up new areas for new forms of colonial exploitation they set up prostitution industries to service the workers. These industries have a profound effect on local cultures and relations between men and women.

Software substitution, whether it's for drivers or waiters or nurses - it's progressing. Technology over time will reduce demand for jobs, particularly at the lower end of skill set.

Capitalism has socialized production. It has brought thousands of people together in the factory and involved them in new social relationships.

They are the same tribal laborers that the British brought in from central India. They use them because they are considered hardworking and obedient.

A recent survey found that 82 per cent of Americans think that over the next thirty years robots and computers will 'probably or definitely do most of the work done by humans' but that only 37 per cent think they will do 'the type of work I do': a big contradiction there.

I wish the country had fewer lawyers and more engineers.

Some economists argue that the apparent paradox rests on an illusion: there is no real 'labor shortage,' only a shortage of people willing to work at the wages currently being offered. You might as well talk about a 'Lexus shortage' — which there is, in a sense, for anyone unwilling to pay $40,000 for a car.

Hard-headed corporate culture is becoming interested in how to get more work out of fewer workers. They're realizing that if their workers are happy, they will work harder and more productively. So they're leading the charge."49

Nearly a third of the American workforce—41.7 million laborers—earn less than $12 an hour, according to a 2016 study.3

Everyone, from software writer to accountant, was now subject to the same insecurities as the "lonely salesman" once targeted by Norman Vincent Peale.

You can't find good people these days. There's too much turnover, absenteeism, moonlighting. People just don't care anymore.

No CEO in the world, therefore, is so delusional as to expect his employees to show up every day and work hard for no money. But there is one gigantic workforce asked to do exactly that. In the United States alone, they number nearly 60 million. Who is this massive, underpaid throng? Schoolchildren.

cuando existe una gran cantidad de gente dispuesta a realizar un trabajo y capaz de hacerlo, por lo general éste no está bien remunerado. Ése es uno de los cuatro factores significativos que determinan un salario. Los otros tres son los conocimientos especializados que requiere un trabajo, lo desagradable que sea y la demanda de servicios que satisface.

when there are a lot of people willing and able to do a job, that job generally doesn't pay well. This is one of four meaningful factors that determine a wage. The others are the specialized skills a job requires, the unpleasantness of a job, and the demand for services that the job fulfills.

The final word on the political non-implications of group differences must go to Gloria Steinem: "There are really not many jobs that actually require a penis or a vagina, and all the other occupations should be open to everyone.

You cannot be pro-jobs and anti-business at the same time. You cannot love employment and hate employers.

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So laying people off is not something I do lightly, it's not something I relish.

If people don't want blue-collar work, our labour costs will remain high and our competitiveness low.

When a parent says about a book, 'That's not my child's world,' I remind them of the future. Social fluency will be the new currency of success. Not experiencing diversity challenges our kids' future in the global work force. It handicaps them from making America and the world more livable and just.

I'm proud to represent those hands that labor in this country.

The New York City police department is more representative of the city it serves than most law firms, university faculties, and media companies.

If Mr. Ware does not want republican laborers on his plantation, let him pay them in full for the time contracted for, and they will leave his plantation at once.

There's a lot of negative speak about what it means to be an immigrant. I'm like, 'OK, I don't know where that came from.' We do the dirty jobs. We do the good jobs. We get the job done.