Adam Cohen Quotes

But I don't want massive layoffs of anyone - public or private. We are planning on shrinking government through attrition and reform, not through random pink slips.

By and large, small companies don't want to settle for part-time employees over full-time positions.

Many people want to scale back their working hours as they near the end of their careers, but not necessarily to give up work altogether.

Firms don't just try to pay as little as possible to get the needed bodies on board; when there is unemployment, they ask themselves how wage cuts would affect the behavior of the employees. Would they quit or feel dissatisfied and work less hard on the firm's behalf if they feel that wage policies are unfair?

It is true that as you have children, there are a good many months when you don't want to be working full-time. I agree that that's an issue.

The reduction of working hours is a decisive means of creating a sufficient number of jobs.

It is easy to imagine thousands of unmarried women — and married women too — who should make a practice of working in a shop or a home or a factory or an office perhaps with a group of others, each in turn taking, say, one day per week,

The minute you do any layoffs, you might as well lay off the whole joint because everybody forgets about the customer and worries about their job security.

But I think we're going to have people who work from home a couple of days a week, three days a week, four days a week. And I'm perfectly comfortable with all that.

I'm working 30 hours or so a week, and if I'm being honest I'd rather it was 50.

We all want to support our working mothers. Allowing them simple accommodations can ensure they are able to continue working and provide a living for themselves and their families.

We do all we can to proactively think about employees, how to care about them.

Regardless of what the minimum wage is, you really have the market wage. And if we're not taking care of our people, then we're going to lose good talent, at every level.

I can't tell you how many board meetings I've been in where the CEO is anguished over the impacts on morale that cost cutting or layoffs will bring about. You know what hurts morale even more than cost-cutting and layoffs? Going out of business.

We can't afford to let high performing talent just walk away from our companies without providing an opportunity to work through family needs.

I worked at Little Caesar's for about two days, bro. I was out. That's the only job I've ever had.

I was working at Papa John's full-time. I had just quit my part-time job at UPS. I was there for two years.

I've fired quite a few, but I've never had an employee quit on me.

In the nicest possible way, my first job was at Sainsbury's - my mum worked there, and I was a bag packer.

What you've seen from the 1980s, particularly in this country, is far fewer people doing Saturday jobs and doing jobs after school.

Where people work and their environment is becoming more and more important, especially for millennials.

We realized quickly that wages are only one part of it, that what also matters are the schedules we give people, the hours that they work, the training we give them, the opportunities you provide them. What you've got to do is not just fix one part, but get all of these things moving together.

There should be a way of saying to people 'thank you very much, it has not worked out but here is a good decent package for you to move on from this role and we will support you to move on into other jobs, so it is not a hire and fire thing'; and those are the sorts of changes that Conservatives would like to see.

Everybody is replaceable; nobody is irreplaceable here. If I'm going to say no to it because I want to do two films a year and sit at home, someone else will.

Emmerdale' is a great place to work and I genuinely wouldn't be here if I didn't want to be.