Workforce Flexibility Quotes

To be productive and focused, the rugged individuals in our economy need health security so that our country can remain competitive and agile in the changing economy.

The American people recognize that their careers or their kids' careers are going to have to be more dynamic. That they might not be working at a single plant for 30 years. That they might have to change careers. They might have to get more education. They might have to retool or retrain. And I think the American people are game for that.

The competition to hire the best will increase in the years ahead. Companies that give extra flexibility to their employees will have the edge in this area.

The full potential of labor can be utilized only if there is mobility in labor.

I recognized that if you're going to have women in the workforce that sometimes you need to be more flexible.

Make sure a certain percentage of the people that you're hiring are generalists so that you can be, kind of reconfigured in the workforce pretty easily.

It is in the interest of the wage-earner to have many other alternatives open to him than service under one all-powerful employer called the State

Every time a woman leaves the workforce because she can't find or afford childcare, or she can't work out a flexible arrangement with her boss, or she has no paid maternity leave, her family's income falls down a notch. Simultaneously, national productivity numbers decline.

Our workforce is very co-operative, very flexible, easy to work with and one of the big selling points. The idea that Britain is still back in the labour market of the '70s is utterly bizarre.

For employers, mobility no longer means merely traditional expatriate placements, but moving jobs to where talented people are located.