Quotes About Workforce

We think that many companies view Coursera as a quality, convenient, inexpensive way to continue employee development. Is there a contract with a company that might make sense? I don't have an answer to that yet.

Educators worried that they might encourage women to pursue math and science who would then be left high and dry. One electrical company asked for twenty female engineers from Goucher, with the added request, "Select beautiful ones for we don't want them on our hands after the war.

One electrical company asked for twenty female engineers from Goucher, with the added request, "Select beautiful ones for we don't want them on our hands after the war.

So, a word to all you Femin-Idi-Amins: Stop "liberating" moms by trying tomake them join the workforce. They're already doing the job that God putthem here to do: Everything.

Productivity depends on many factors, including our workforce's knowledge and skills and the quantity and quality of the capital, technology, and infrastructure that they have to work with.

Making an economy more productive (sensibly interpreted) in a sustainable fashion is not best served by obsessively activating people and locking them up in jobs that they hate doing and from which they learn nothing.

Donald Trump has brought jobs back to this country.

Most Americans agree that technology is going to eliminate many more jobs than it is going to create.

It takes four private-sector jobs to support every public-sector employee.

We went on 'Fallon' and they had like one hundred-plus employees working on one show, and it's like, I can't afford more than two employees.

There was a great sag in employment beginning in 2000.

Are deviations from full employment a social problem? Obviously.

In Gujarat, they may not have enough people to do menial jobs and so they need people from U.P. and Bihar. But in Maharashtra, we have enough people who need jobs.

our genteel lifestyle seemed guaranteed for all eternity by the availability of cheap labor.

The quality of a society and of its culture will depend on the status of its unemployed.

I know of no industrial society where women are the economic equals of men. Of everything that economics measures, women get less.

They're getting all these young kids who work cheap and don't stick around long enough to vest, and even if they do vest, they don't have much equity to begin with. When you look at it that way, the perks seem pretty cheap.

Then came the Industrial Revolution, first in Britain, then in Western Europe and North America. Men and women flocked from the countryside to towns to satisfy factories' growing demand for labor.

Two things determined the mix between these two types of jobs and the extent of inequality the postindustrial transition produced. First, the greater the education and skill level of the workforce, the higher the level of wages in general. Second, the greater the institutionalization of labor markets in services (in addition to manufacturing), the higher the quality of service sector jobs in general.

Last century, machines proved they could replace human backs. This century, new technologies are proving they can replace human left brains.

The growing recognition of empathy's role in healing is one reason why nursing will be one of the key professions of the Conceptual Age workforce.

The U.S. private sector employs three times as many salespeople as all fifty state governments combined employ people. If the nation's salespeople lived in a single state, that state would be the fifth-largest in the United States.

Americans love complaining about bloated governments—but America's sales force outnumbers the entire federal workforce by more than 5 to 1.

I've heard from too many business leaders that they are having to look outside of Virginia to find workers with the right skills sets. That's unacceptable.