Modern Workplace Quotes

I don't like the idea of separating life and work. That notion seems dated and a bit alien to me.

There was a previous generation of women who rose through the ranks in an environment when work and life were highly compartmentalized. And I think now, because of technology, we're always on. Where there used to be work life and home life, now it's one life. And I think a lot of companies don't recognize that.

You can't pick up a business magazine ever without seeing the word 'collaborate' splashed all over it. I think people are probably feeling assaulted by the need to always be on and always be interacting.

I'm still spending my working life trying to mine people's souls and now they're complimenting me in reviews on the amount of time I spend in the gym. On the definition of my triceps.

Smart hiring managers in the modern world should be asking, “How long can you concentrate on a task before you have to take a break?” I wonder how many of them do?

People bemoan the loss of watercooler chat, but I think that there's more of that than ever. It's just that it's online.

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

In today's world, I probably would like to work with someone like Gaga.

It's time to update our workplace policies to reflect the realities of the 21st-century labor force and to support modern working families. It's time to continue our nation's long commitment to supporting unemployed workers by extending emergency unemployment compensation.

Sitting in an office for TOO long is not natural, perhaps, so that's why we should change it. I didn't say that out-and-out capitalism, which reduces humanity to dollar figures, is natural.

Technology enables us to work every minute of every day from any place on the planet.

The workplace has become a psychological battlefield and the millennials have the upper hand, because they are tech savvy, with every gadget imaginable almost becoming an extension of their bodies. They multitask, talk, walk, listen and type, and text. And their priorities are simple: they come first.

The average American worker enjoys amenities for which Croesus, Crassus, the Medici, and Louis XIV would have envied him.

Not using social media in the workplace, in fact, is starting to make about as much sense as not using the phone or email.

Workplaces still operate like it's 1962 and one person is always at home, and they are not very good at adjusting for the fact that a majority of women work and take care of children.

Companies used to be able to function with autocratic bosses. We don't live in that world anymore.

Indeed, in a world of the BlackBerry, remote access and Wi-Fi hotspots on every street corner, it feels particularly outdated that much of our working culture is still dominated by the need to be at our desk for long hours of the day.

We are in an age of technology where we sit in our little cubicles and we IM each other and Skype each other and never connect as human beings.

Today, smartphones, tablets, and the Internet have allowed people to conduct business from anywhere at any time. But as we continue to progress, many families find it harder to balance the ever-increasing demands of their work with their desire to care for and be with their family.

I'd like to think my company HootSuite is anything but a stodgy old-boys' club. As a social media company, our employees are by and large young, progressive and open-minded.

We live in an environment in which connectivity and cyberspace are transforming all workplaces, including the humanitarian workplace.

My office is basically my phone.

We're moving toward the kind of work world which has less security. But we hope it has more creativity and possibility of real engagement.

Command-and-control isn't the kind of corporate culture people want to be in anymore.

One day offices will be a thing of the past