Quotes About Workforce

As someone who has been both a full-time mom and full-time in work force, I know we all have valuable experiences that shape who we are.

The skills gap is a reflection of what we value.

Accountants, machinists, medical technicians, even software writers that write the software for 'machines' are being displaced without upscaled replacement jobs. Retrain, rehire into higher paying and value-added jobs? That may be the political myth of the modern era. There aren't enough of those jobs.

In reality, Japanese women face many societal barriers to equality. Of course, the barriers that I'll now describe also exist in countries other than Japan. But those barriers are stronger—and the gender gap in health, education, and participation in the workforce and in politics is greater—in Japan than in any other rich industrialized nation except South Korea.

Japan's male/female pay differential for full-time employees is the third highest (exceeded only by South Korea and Estonia) among 35 rich industrial countries. A Japanese woman employee is paid on average only 73% of a man employee at the same level, compared to 85% for the average rich industrial country, ranging up to 94% for New Zealand.

rank-and-file staff rarely want to hire people more skilled than themselves.

The workers, once the heroes of historical negativity, have become the transparent unemployed workforce of factories that are but simulacra. The intellectual, once the herald of historical negativity, has become the transparent clown of dissidence.

My research clearly reveals that if we want to put inner-city workers to work immediately, we just can't rely on the private sector. They don't want to touch them; they don't want to hire them.

My view is pensioners don't have the one option that people of working age have. They can't really increase their income, because they are no longer able to work.

Think about it: Reducing crime and poverty and ensuring that we have an educated, stable work force has a direct effect on you and me and the future of our country.

The most-praised generation goes to work

We cannot tax the same people we expect to create jobs. That is a recipe for keeping people out of work.

The average American salesmen keeps 33 men and women at work - 33 people producing the product he sells . . . and is responsible for the livelihood of 130 people.

You better get as much work as you can now because, once you get over 40, it's over.

Work/life benefits allow companies meaningful ways for responding to their employees' needs; they can be a powerful tool for transforming a workforce and driving a business' success.

With the 2001 terror attacks, airline bankruptcies, pension terminations, loss of pay, changes in work rules — we're all working harder and longer than we used to.

Individuals out of work for an extended period can become less employable as they lose the specific skills acquired in their previous jobs and also lose the habits needed to hold down any job.

Creating more and better jobs is how you build a strong economy.

We have a plan for a stronger middle class, with the goal of generating 12 million new jobs over the next four years.

Hard-working men and women who have made America the strongest nation in the world are betrayed by Washington's trade policy.

We're not going to see an exclusively robotic factory, but we will see the optimum use of robots and people.

Muslims are ordinary members of the working public, just like you.

I am a huge believer in organized labor. Period. Full stop.

You can't keep bringing people in from other countries, finding them jobs when Americans need jobs first.