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Sunday 20th of September 2026

Remote work If you can do it in Tahoe, you can do it in India. Unnamed American executive attending the 2022 Davos World Economic Forum quoted by Rana Foroohar, Financial Times, May 29, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Work Americans shouldn't be ashamed to get their hands dirty. The dirt that gets under your fingernails, my dad would tell me, is clean dirt. You worked for and it washes off. A lot of this dirt we have in this nation is no longer clean dirt. A former industrial engineer quoted in The Gilded Rage, by Alexander Zaitkin  © 2016 Kwiple.com
Work Businesses treat their least powerful employees as poorly as they can get away with, end of story. Timothy Noah, The Great Divergence © 2015 Kwiple.com
Work Companies now use gamelike techniques to cut labor costs by motivating workers to become lower-cost Heroes of Late-Capitalist Labor  © 2018 Kwiple.com
Work Employees have to assume that everything they say can be recorded. What does it mean when all the words, and the tone of those words, might be replayed? Whispering has lost its power. Zephyr Teachout, New York Review of Books, Augsut 18, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Work The end of work will not necessarily mean the end of meaning, because meaning is generated by imagining rather than by working. Work is essential for meaning only according to some ideologies and lifestyles. Yuval Harari, The Guardian, May 8, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Work … for most people work brings few rewards beyond a payslip. As the pollster Gallup showed in its momentous survey of working life in 155 countries published in 2017, only one in 10 western Europeans described themselves as engaged in their jobs. This is perhaps unsurprising. After all, in another survey conducted by YouGov in 2015, 37 per cent of working British adults said their jobs were not making any meaningful contribution to the world. James Suzman, Financial Times, August 28, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Work The goal, Dr. [Susan] Lambert [University of Chicago professor of social work] told me, is “one reasonable job per person.” Not “two for one and half for another.” Bryce Covert, New York Times, July 20, 2021 © 2021 Kwiple.com
Work Hard work is damn near as overrated as monogamy. attributed to Huey Long © 2021 Kwiple.com
Work I smoke a lot of weed when I write, generally speaking. I don't know if it helps me write. It makes me not mind that I'm writing.  And I don't know if it makes me work better,  but it makes me not care that I'm working. Who wants to work? But if you're stoned, it doesn't seem like work. Seth Rogen © 2023 Kwiple.com
Work I want to be an American so I can work, that is the only wonder here—work! Rodolpho, an illegal immigrant in Arthur Miller's A View From the Bridge © 2015 Kwiple.com
Work I would suppose that workers sacrifice more of their lives by working than investors sacrifice by investing. Robert A. Dahl, A Preface to Economic Democracy © 2018 Kwiple.com
Work In the new work culture, enduring or even merely liking one's job is not enough. Workers should love  what they do, and then promote that on social media, thus fusing their identities to that of their employers. Why else would LinkedIn build its own version of Snapchat Stories? This is toil glamour and it is going mainstream. … Workplace indifference just doesn't have a socially acceptable hashtag. Erin Griffith, New York Times, January 26, 2019 © 2019 Kwiple.com
Work In today’s economy, few workers get to be judged on output that is discrete and identifiably theirs (such as a newspaper column). More often, they are among the many contributors to a rolling and amorphous process: a corporate merger, say, or IT maintenance. One effect is that, in all candour, I have no idea what most of you do. Janan Ganesh, Financial Times, October 2, 2021 © 2021 Kwiple.com
Work [I]t is the state that establishes the default constitution of workplace governance. It is a form of authoritarian, private government, in which, under employment-at-will, workers cede all  their rights to their employers, except those specifically reserved for them by law. Elizabeth Anderson, Private Government  © 2018 Kwiple.com
Work  It's true hard work never killed anybody, but why take the chance? Ronald Reagan © 2023 Kwiple.com
Work The jobs you work increasingly relfects the money you already had. Sarah Kendzior, The View From Flyover Country  © 2020 Kwiple.com
Work The logical conclusion of workplace surveillance is that  the private sphere ceases to exist at home because it ceases to exist at work, where visibility into the worker's life is unrestrained. Zephyr Teachout, New York Review of Books, Augsut 18, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Work Low prices mean low wages. Speed, reliability and convenience mean pressure, monitoring and unpredictable hours. In other words, the same things that make this a wonderful time to be a consumer make it a terrible time to be a worker. Sarah O'Connor, Financial Times, November 30, 2016 © 2016 Kwiple.com
Work Most workers in the United States are governed by communist dictatorships in their work lives. Elizabeth Anderson Private Government © 2018 Kwiple.com
Work The way to make work work is to cut it back. Bryce Covert, New York Times, July 20, 2021 © 2021 Kwiple.com
Work When reporters write about Google, they write about it as if it was inevitable. The actual experience was more like, “Could you work 130 hours in a week?” The answer is yes, if you're strategic about when you sleep, when you shower, and how often you go to the bathroom. Marissa Mayer, Google's first female engineer Gizmodo's article about Mayer's speech including this statement was entitled, “Marissa Mayer: You, Too, Can Work 130 Hours a Week If You Plan When to Take a Shit” © 2015 Kwiple.com
Work You will be rewarded by not being fired. Shirley Tilghman, president of Princeton University, on the rewards to expect from hard work after graduating and entering the worforce, in her 2011 commencement address, quoted by Edward Luce in Time to Start Thinking  © 2017 Kwiple.com
 
Work requirements On welfare, Angie was a low-income single mother, raising her children in a dangerous neighborhood in a household roiled by chaos. She couldn't pay the bills. She drank lots of beer. And her kids needed a father. Off welfare, Angie was a low-income single mother, raising her children in a dangerous neighborhood in a household roiled by chaos. She couldn't pay the bills. She drank lots of beer. And her kids needed a father. Jason DeParle, American Dream  © 2018 Kwiple.com