Work Sharing Quotes

Countries with short workweeks consistently top gender' equality rankings. The central issue is achieving a more equitable distribution of work.

I'm interested in reaching the masses with my work. It's one of my goals.

Why was there so much work-sharing in the 1930s? One reason is that government pushed for it. In his memoirs, President Herbert Hoover estimated that as many as two million workers avoided unemployment as a result of his efforts to promote work-sharing.

I'm not going to lay about after my career. My wife will work, too.

When men do all the outside work, they contribute on average about 10 percent of housework. But as their share of outside work falls, their share of housework rises to no more than 37 percent.

I think this co-operative scheme is an uncommonly good one. It's much easier to work on someone else's job than one's own - gives one that delightful feelin' of interferin' and bossin' about, combined with the glorious sensation that another fellow is takin' all one's own work off one's hands.

Talking about your work all the time and to open up, you have to do all that. I have begun to find my fun in that as well.

One way to reduce the need for layoffs would be to cut back on hours, spreading the available work among more employees.