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The Emotion Missing From the Workplace
- the “tyranny of positivity” dominates most workplaces.
from The Emotion Missing From the Workplace by The Atlantic
Keely Adler added 2y ago
- Certain kinds of distress are more socially acceptable to express at work than others, Kanov said via email. It’s okay to openly grieve the death of a spouse or parent, but much riskier to share the struggles of a breakup, office politics, or financial worry, for example. The bereavement expert Kenneth Doka calls these losses—the kind we feel we ha... See more
from The Emotion Missing From the Workplace by The Atlantic
Keely Adler added 2y ago
- In a business culture that once demanded positivity, a new set of norms is slowly emerging.
from The Emotion Missing From the Workplace by The Atlantic
Keely Adler added 2y ago
- “There’s an unspectacular mundane suffering that pervades the workplace,” Kanov told me. “But we don’t feel allowed to acknowledge that we suffer. We endure way more than we should, and can, because we downplay what it’s actually doing to us.”
from The Emotion Missing From the Workplace by The Atlantic
Keely Adler added 2y ago