Jacob Rees-Mogg Quotes

We're living in a different world now in terms of employee needs, and companies have to offer alternative methods for getting the work done. Even under the most difficult circumstances you can have creative flexibility.

What I don't underestimate is everybody's deal is different and everybody's deal makes it difficult. And so it is incumbent upon employers to create flexible work environments that allow people to fulfill their professional and personal lives in a way that works for themselves.

Oh, I was working occasionally in and out of New York.

And of course I didn't make any money from stand up for years, so I had temp jobs. That was the way I made money.

I've always had service-industry jobs, because those were the easiest to quit or take time off from.

Nowadays, there's no such thing as a stable job.

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.

I had temping jobs also. I liked the flexibility. There was no asking for time off; you just didn't work.

The kind of job where you have to hustle and hustle and where you're not sure whether you will have enough clients next month, where you have less job security, is becoming much more common.

Ambitious parents need more flexibility in how, where, and when they work, including the ability to work less or even not at all for a period. Equally important, they will need employers … who don’t view this kind of a zig-zag career path as a lack of commitment or professionalism.

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

Ask any worker at Starbucks, Cosi, McDonald's or Walmart, 'How many jobs do you have?' and likely he or she will tell you: 'Two.' I know colleagues who've had breakfast at one store, and gone to lunch in another, only to find the same person waiting on them.

I like cable: you only work four months out of the year and have the other eight months to do movies if you want.

Zero-hours contracts are a low proportion of the workforce; they provide a route into employment and flexibility for staff. They benefit business, consumers, and taxpayers by keeping costs down, and they boost productivity, allowing the efficient use of labour.

Ours is the most precarious work, as you are in one place today, and tomorrow you are in another.

Universal Credit claimants who refuse to accept a zero hours contract job offer, without good reason, can be subject to a sanction.

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

Just getting paid for six months out of the year is unacceptable in any kind of job.

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

I'm the only person I know who's never had a regular job.

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

You have a part-time job and that's better to no job at all

Sanctions and workfare make it easier for employers to impose insecure practices on desperate people.

The powers that technology and independent contracting give to workers enables them to take greater control of their careers to preserve work-life balance.

Even when I was working at The Village Voice, I only put in about 20 hours at the office.