James B. Stewart Quotes

Meetings, clearly, can take place anywhere, and wouldn't it be nice to see your coworkers lounging on the grass with their shoes off?

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

I want a desirable place to work to attract and keep them here. So you try to create an environment for people to do their best work, and be generous on the benefit side.

For me, going home at 5:30 is as much about my own choices, but also giving my team those choices, too.

I hadn't really worked in an office before Shutterstock, so I didn't have the experience of building a culture, nor did I understand how important that is for attracting and retaining the best talent.

We must make working life more human.

The show is called 'The Office,' and while it focuses on the people, the architecture of the space is very important.

Surely in a world of email, video conferencing and virtual assistants, isn't being expected to show up at the office extremely anachronistic? Yet to date it seems that where one works does matter. That creativity and innovation do feed off physical interactions between people.

The employee relationships are important, investment in our people is important, and the ability to do work at multiple sites is important.

I think an office is just a microcosm of life and the different kinds of people that you will come across and interactions there, and I think if you all sit in a room together, then it gets a bit more intense and fun for people to watch, maybe.

As our company has grown, how we configure and design our offices has been a crucial part of how we foster connection and collaboration throughout our teams.

The office-as-playground trend was made famous by Google and has spread like an infection across the tech industry. Work can't just be work; work has to be fun.

Distributed workforces are most likely to succeed if their culture is one that values and prioritizes face-to-face communications.

I always want there to be room for people to connect. That is so important, especially in an office.

If workplaces that enlist happiness consultants really care about worker satisfaction, why not offer better maternity and paternity policies? Daycare options? They could advise managers to stop calling workers to come in on weekends or expect them to answer emails late on weeknights.

Mojang doesn't want to just have work relationships, they want social relationships between friends.

Allowing our staff to mix their life with work only makes them more productive and in love with the work that they're doing.

At Eventbrite, we care about the whole you, not just the employee you.

The culture of a workplace - an organization's values, norms and practices - has a huge impact on our happiness and success.

Well, we try to - we definitely try to have a balance. And I think things have gotten a lot better at Pixar. When we did "Toy Story," that was an all hands on deck situation that really was time intensive.

We've always operated on the thesis that a company can have a personality, that people can be themselves, and be very successful in business at the same time.

One of the beauties of working in Shondaland is that they make an effort to get to know who you are, so they're not giving you something that's going to be so far out of your comfort zone.

It's not just hours and pay that are important anymore. People want to know what the company is like, what the culture is.

People don't value strongly enough how much time they spend in the office. Imagine you could work with people you love - wouldn't work be great and staff turnover be lower? And your productivity higher?

My belief is that a positive culture works best because people want to meet or exceed expectations, not demands.