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Quotation of the Day for August 6, 2015



"The one-way honor system is when individual workers profess having an intense work ethic that also involves loyalty or identifying with the employers. Many people that I interviewed said that they give "150 percent, or 100 percent, or 125 percent," so the individual is pledging themselves as a statement of personal character. They're saying, "I'm a good person, see how much I identify with work and can be relied on."

"On the other hand, for the last 30 years or so, employers have been pulling away from making any similar pledge. And there's no blame for employers -- even people who had been laid off said it's not the company's job to worry about workers, they have to be lean and mean in a tough economy. Americans appear to have entirely capitulated to the model of the high-performance company that doesn't owe anything to workers aside from, as one woman that I interviewed said, "a paycheck and some respect.""

- Allison Pugh, sociology professor and author of "The Tumbleweed Society: Working and Caring in an Age of Insecurity."

[http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865633375/Job-insecurity-is-the-new-normal-Heres-how-its-affecting-your-family-life.html]

Submitted by: Terry Labach
Aug. 4, 2015

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