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More than 1,000 employees from Google, Microsoft, Spotify and other high-profile firms have spoken

- [announcer] do you have an invention idea but don't know what to do next? call invent help today. they can help you get started with your idea. call now 800-710-0020. do you have any idea what time we'll get out of here? >> this is michael scott, scranton. well, we don't want to work. it's not fair to these people! these people are my friends and i care about them! >> from the 1990s, we're definitely working more than ever before, and as a result of that, you start to see more workplace settings than might have been possible previously. >> we're a superstar short. did we have any luck on j...

Bob newhart of that office. surrounded by all the craziness. >> lenny is my other personality. >> does he got the same address? >> the workplace comedy is great because all the characters come in and they're not related, so they don't have something in common. >> turned out to be a diverse cast, which was i guess different in those days. >> jack soo, gregory sierra, ron glass. that was pretty unusual and revolutionary. >> i believe that when the '70s happened, it was a fallout of the '60s. and they who might have had a dream about how america would be a completely different place then all of a...

>> i didn't want to do the standard family show. >> i'm sure he has girlfriends. but he denies it. >> well, of course todd's 13 now. >> the fact that so many people in hollywood were hitting the couch probably opened the doors for the setting of the show. >> i enjoyed the oddity of the people. >> what seems to be your problem, stan? >> bob, you have no idea what it's like to be incredibly good-looking. >> i go into my office, and there is a ventriloquist. >> well, doctor, frank here wants to break up the act and go out on his own. >> "the bob newhart show" is kind of a model for how to do a wo...

>> good morning, wallace & mcquaid. >> listen to the way she does that, sam. that's why they made her the president. >> so angela is an advertising executive on "who's the boss?" elyse keaton on "family ties" is an architect. they have these really professional, upscale careers rather than just jobs. those are really powerful fantasies for women in the '80s. >> as a travel agent, i like to think that i'm a little cog in a big machine. a very little cog. >> in 1986, linda bloodworth-thomason went to cbs and she said, i just want to say what all women are really about, opinionated and successful...