Quotes About Workforce

We obviously would like to get unemployment as low as we possibly can.

In the industrial world we have the problem of having more productive capacity than we know what to do with. That's at the root of the unemployment crisis: we've got so productive at making things, we don't require people to be involved in making the basics of life any more. Or nearly as many people.

Major drivers of global unemployment are lack of job creation and skills shortage or mismatch.

The best thing for workers is work, not unemployment.

In Michigan, in the mid-'80s, the unemployment rate goes way up because a lot of factories shut down. And then, the mid-2000s, to pick a date, the unemployment rate in Michigan isn't that much higher than in the rest of the country. But the main way that happened is people moved.

People aren't stupid. I mean, people remember in 1990, the unemployment rate was 10 percent. Now it's 4 _ percent. We've got 1/4 million jobs that we've created.

What women care about are jobs, the economy, the unemployment rate.

Unemployment in America today is too high. And part of the reason, unfortunately, is that many companies cannot fill the high-skilled jobs increasingly at risk of going overseas.

Our emerging workforce is not interested in command-and-control leadership. They don't want to do things because I said so; they want to do things because they want to do them.

And whereas women had to fight to find their way into the workforce, men are now fighting to reclaim their place in the family structure.

The spread of computers and the Internet will put jobs in two categories. People who tell computers what to do, and people who are told by computers what to do.

Americans used to be able to depend on their jobs to provide a stable retirement.

Best Buy went and hired a lot of Shanghai staff, but went and westernised them. They only work eight hours a day!

Technology, outsourcing, a growing temp staffing industry, productivity efficiencies, have all replaced the middle class.

Running businesses of all sizes and stages, I've seen the challenges companies face in trying to identify, attract, and retain talent.

Today, women make up about half our workforce. But they still make 77 cents for every dollar a man earns. That is wrong, and in 2014, it's an embarrassment. Women deserve equal pay for equal work.

Machines were devised not to do a man out of a job, but to take the heavy labor from man's back and place it on the broad back of the machine.

The true face of the unions is not now a man in a hard hat as much as it is a woman in a classroom or in cleaning smocks.

A body of 500 men chosen at random from amongst the unemployed.

We have an opportunity, but we have an obligation to senior citizens and to the younger people who are entering the workforce today to help ensure that they are going to be able to trust the government to have a workable program that benefits them as well.

It is essential that there should be organization of labor. This is an era of organization. Capital organizes and therefore labor must organize.

90% of the work in this country is done by people who don't feel good".

Investment in training is a huge necessity for knowledge-based corporations.

Consolidation means less equipment, less networks, and less jobs.