Quotes About Workforce

Companies simply don't need the same amount of people anymore to be as productive as they've always been. We are moving toward a society without employees. It's not here yet. But it will be. And that's okay.

Robots are the new middle class. And everyone else will either be an entrepreneur or a temp staffer.

ZERO sectors in the economy are moving toward more full-time workers.

They're empty! All the cubicles are empty. The middle class is being hollowed out." And I took a closer look. Entire floors were dark. Or there were floors with one or two cubicles occupied, but the rest empty. "It's all outsourced, or technology has taken over for the paper shufflers," he explained.

The entire workforce can be divided into the people who have an evil plan and the people who don't and that division, I suspect, is very similar to the rich employee mindset, versus the poor employee mindset.

Robots are the new middle class.

We hire five, work them like ten, and pay them like eight."31

We hire five, work them like ten, and pay them like eight.

Look how many millions of people are underemployed or have lost their jobs. The last thing I'm going to do is play politics with their future.

I think that solving the job impact of AI will require significant private and public efforts. And I think that many people actually underestimate the impact of AI on jobs. Having said that, I think that if we work on it and provide the skill training needed, then there will be many new jobs created.

In my view, if you have one in 10 unemployed - something is wrong with the economy whether you call it recession or not.

The longer people are unemployed, the less employable they become. Skills become rusty; managers look more suspiciously at someone who has been out of work for years than a candidate already employed.

You have this disturbing reality that there are a lot of people who would rather say, 'I'm on strike' than 'I'm unemployed.' And those are the people who vote for strikes.

Millions of Americans are either underemployed or unemployed.

We got to put in place policies to ensure that those who are unemployed, what do we do for them?

We Conservatives hate unemployment.

Automation is going to cause unemployment, and we need to prepare for it.

Even though there is rampant unemployment in many parts of the world, there are still large numbers of jobs that are going unfilled because employers are having a hard time identifying people with the right set of skills.

We know there are a lot of people in the unemployment pool that do not match up in their skill set for what jobs are going to be created, and that's an area we've got to keep pressing on.

What is a danger is that we stay stuck in a new normal where unemployment rates stay high, people who have jobs see their incomes go up, businesses make big profits. But they're learned to do more with less, and so they don't hire.

I define genuine full employment as a situation where there are at least as many job openings as there are persons seeking employment, probably calling for a rate of unemployment, as currently measured, of between 1 and 2 percent.

Solving the unemployment challenge means developing competitive skills so there are more qualified people eligible for the jobs today and the ones that will be created in the future.

What happened in Queensland is that people are facing high unemployment relative to other states - 5.7 per cent when I last checked.

Despite our high rate of unemployment, 300,000 jobs go unfilled largely because many of the unemployed lack the skills needed today as a result of technological progress.