Workforce Quotes

“In another thirty to fifty years, the demand for cheap labor will have produced even more machines over the employment of actual humans. And in that time frame, humans will have lost their voice, their power, all freedoms, and all worth. It is inevitable that machines will one day become the ultimate enemies of mankind. We are not evolving or progressing with our technology, only regressing. Technology is our friend today, but will be our enemy in the future.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“America isn't breaking apart at the seams. The American dream isn't dying. Our new racial and ethnic complexion hasn't triggered massive outbreaks of intolerance. Our generations aren't at each other's throats. They're living more interdependently than at any time in recent memory, because that turns out to be a good coping strategy in hard times. Our nation faces huge challenges, no doubt. So do the rest of the world's aging economic powers. If you had to pick a nation with the right stuff to ride out the coming demographic storm, you'd be crazy not to choose America, warts and all.”
― Pew Research Center, The Next America: Boomers, Millennials, and the Looming Generational Showdown

“It is inevitable that machines will one day become the ultimate enemies of mankind. We are not evolving or progressing with our technology, only regressing. Technology is our friend today, but will be our enemy in the future.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“It is in their interests to have a stable, skilled labour force, a permanently well-adjusted complex, because the human complex (the collective worker) of an enterprise is also a machine which cannot, without considerable loss, be taken to pieces too often and renewed with single new parts.”
― Antonio Gramsci

“It is equally important to know if we have a happy and engaged workforce as it is to have a profitable bottom line.”
― Vern Dosch, Wired Differently

“We can never fall short when it comes to recruiting, hiring, maintaining and growing our workforce. It is the employees who make our organization’s success a reality.”
― Vern Dosch, Wired Differently

“The old think the young are lazy and entitled. The young think the old are incompetent and inefficient.”
― Joanie Connell, Flying Without a Helicopter: How to Prepare Young People for Work and Life

“Rich can live better than poor but they cannot live without poor.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“All this world needs today are intelligent donkeys.”
― Amit Abraham

“Quality management starts with building a high-quality workforce.”
― Pearl Zhu, Quality Master

“In the one hundred thirty years since Petrie published his seminal studies of the pyramids and temples of Egypt, the hand tools and building and sculpting tools used by men and women have improved exponentially in capability and efficiency and hard drives are better known as integral devices in a computer.
Yet we are taught that during the three thousand years that the ancient Egyptians flourished on this planet, the tools used by men and women did not change. How could this be? The finely crafted and precise boxes inside the pyramids at Giza were supposedly created in the fourth dinasty, 2500 BCE, or forty-five hundred years ago. The finely crafted and precise boxes inside the rock tunnels of the Serapeum were supposedly created in the eighteenth dynasty, 1550-1200 BCE, or thirty-five hundred years ago. We are asked to believe that in a one-thousand-year span, the ancient Egyptians did not make any significant improvement in their tools and methods for cutting hard igneous rock. We, however, have examined the results of their labor, and it is clear that the Egyptians were not stupid people. In fact, they were geniuses in their accomplishments, yet we are to accept that while they tapped into the awesome power of the human spirit and creativity, they did not ask, over the course of a full millennium, how they could do their job better--how they could demand less pain and strain from their workforce, how they could do more with less effort, how they could reduce injuries and provide workers with more time off. If there is any mystery to ancient Egypt, it is why a paradigm that was established one hundred thirty years ago still holds force among many Egyptologists and archaeologists.”
― Christopher Dunn, Lost Technologies of Ancient Egypt: Advanced Engineering in the Temples of the Pharaohs

“it isn’t just talent which is mobile today, the work itself is highly mobile too.”
― Gyan Nagpal, The Future Ready Organization: How Dynamic Capability Management Is Reshaping the Modern Workplace

“an organization’s capability agenda is increasingly less about your status in the company, the colour of your identity card, words in your contract or the job title you carry, and more about the value you create”
― Gyan Nagpal, The Future Ready Organization: How Dynamic Capability Management Is Reshaping the Modern Workplace

“Being unfit for work affords you freedoms that are not available to employees in the corporate workforce.”
― Steven Magee

“55 and older is now the fastest growing segment of the USA workforce...and retirement is becoming a fond memory of the past.”
― Steven Magee

“Generational transitions are filled with opportunities, yet history is filled with examples of mistakes, bad decisions and wasted resources trying to cater to a new generation. Will it be a stormy ride, or a smooth sail for you? It all depends on how well you prepare.”
― Hana Ben-Shabat, Gen Z 360: Preparing for the Inevitable Change in Culture, Work, and Commerce

“The gullible women who entered the workforce at the urging of feminists quickly discovered that they did not like it very much (despite their feminine advantages enumerated above). Work turned out to be . . . well, a lot of work. Their response to the broken promises of feminism, however, was not to blame the ideologues for having made them or themselves for having believed them; it was to blame men. Men simply had to re-engineer the world of work until women found it “fulfilling.” And feminism would lead the way again. (One of the movement’s greatest strengths has been this ability to profit politically from its own failures.)”
― F. Roger Devlin, Sexual Utopia in Power: The Feminist Revolt Against Civilization

“The Union government from 2014 began systematic harassment and persecution of civil society. This harmed civil society but it also hurt India. NGOs provide the third largest workforce in the United States and more than 10 per cent of all
Americans work in an NGO.1 In 24 American states out of 50, NGOs
actually employ more workers than all the branches of manufacturing
combined. It is similar in the United Kingdom. In Europe, 13 per cent
of all jobs are in the NGO sector.2
To put this figure in perspective, consider that less than 10 per
cent of all jobs in India are in the formal sector. Surely this was then
a sector to be boosted and not obstructed, but obstruct is what Modi
did. Through his years, the attack on civil society continued as the
first two parts of this chapter will show. The third chronicles the
heroic and sustained resistance from marginalised communites:
Dalits, Muslims, Adivasis and farmers, which forced the government
ultimately to retreat on vital issues.”
― Aakar Patel, Price of the Modi Years

“Talking about diversity and inclusion in the workplace is one of the most important conversations you will ever have with your employees.”
― Germany Kent

“The work force of the country depends on the well-being of the citizens.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“A diverse workforce isn't just an asset; it's a catalyst for innovation and growth.”
― Dax Bamania