flexible work arrangements Quotes

We also have to look at how we help families balance the responsibilities at home and the responsibilities at business.

We need to start talking about child-rearing in the workplace.

I have never had an office that I work out of and work has become intertwined with my personal life.

Companies need to have a lot more flexibility with their people... . If somebody wants to golf around the world for two months, okay, well, maybe on an unpaid basis, let them do it. That sort of flexibility I think is incredibly important because most of our time, we spend at work.

My people are at the core of everything I do, and I recognize the importance of giving them the flexibility to balance work around their personal lives.

In 2016, you shouldn't have to choose between succeeding at work and being there for your family.

There's a tremendous loss of talent to businesses who cannot make room for their employees to attend to family responsibilities. It really amounts to corporate waste: They hire really talented women and then lose them because they can't find ways to keep them productive and content the minute they can't "lean in."

I find it pointless sitting in my house not working, though I like to go on extended vacations from time to time.

We work super hard to not have to work

Women are really demanding more flexibility in the workplace. Control is the new currency.. Forty-six percent of women want to start their own small businesses.

Allowing my people to have a good work-life balance by working flexibly is very important to me.

We should pass a flex time law that allows employees to take their overtime pay in money or in time off, depending on what's better for their family.

As an actor timing is important, especially as a mother with small children, so a lot is chance.

Work-life balance is one of the biggest misconceptions people have.

I would love to employ a man, but how can I possibly give a man dictation from the bath?

Most of the people in the workforce today will spend some years when they also have children and family responsibilities.

I always supported the women I worked with having time off to go to parent-teacher conferences and doctors' appointments or bringing their infants into the office. I'm a huge supporter of on-site child care. You need much more sensitivity in the workplace to the challenges young women go through in trying to do two very difficult jobs well.

I'm always looking for ways that I can work from home with my home studio and stay busy. This is a great way to do it. Having a home studio has made projects like this a lot easier.

One day offices will be a thing of the past

We have to think creatively about changes that need to be made in the workplace to accommodate the growing demands on the work force.

Perhaps being a parent has changed career more in that you ask yourself how long you'll be away from home. My eldest child is approaching school age so that becomes more important. They're less portable.

There are times I wish I didn't have a job, even though I love my job: I get to work with interesting, eccentric colleagues and equally interesting and eccentric subject matter, both of which are rarities. But, naturally, I would treasure having more freedom someday: of time and of movement. Will I always have a full-time job? I don't know. But I do know that I need to spend at least part of my week in an office, with other people.

Some people live where they work. Others just visit.​

Al Gore was a good guy and he wanted to give flextime to American women who are trying to balance work and family, but he couldn't because the business interests are organized, and they don't want it to happen.

Telecommuting has its advantages and it has its limits. I think we need to find that sweet spot in between where it helps the environment, it helps people, but it doesn't alienate us and it doesn't cause our organizations to fall apart by centrifugal force.