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Who else here feels that humans have an innate need to be emotionally invested in their daily lives ? - goal of your company / values - need to grow - need t

Who else here feels that humans have an innate need to be emotionally invested in their daily lives ? - goal of your company / values - need to grow - need to perform and be seen as such - need to belong so often we can read warnings about not falling for this, but it's so common .. it's wired in us it seems

toomuchtodo 3y ago
The desire for meaning through their work is used against a worker. https://www.fuqua.duke.edu/duke-fuqua-insights/kay-passion-exploitation https://www.fuqua.duke.edu/duke-fuqua-insights/kay-passion-e... > The researchers found that people consider it more legitimate to make passionate employees leave family to work on a weekend, work unpaid, and handle unrelated tasks that were not in the job description. > The team found passion exploitation consistently across eight studies with more than 2,400 total participants. The studies varied in design, in the participants (students, managers, random online samples) and in the kinds of jobs they considered. > In one study, participants who read that an artist was strongly passionate about his job said it was more legitimate for the boss to exploit the artist than those who read the artist wasn’t as passionate. This finding extended to asking for work far beyond the job description, including leaving a day at the park with family and cleaning the office bathroom. Study: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30998042/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30998042/
hotpotamus 3y ago
Well most humans do, but psychopaths (and I speak from personal experience) probably do not, and the smarter among them tend to do really well in the American corporate context.
- agumonkey 3y ago
  that's true, the economy doesn't reward human needs and the bad ones bubble up above and end up controlling your life..
TrackerFF 3y ago
It is even worse in certain Asian countries. Your entire identity and self-worth is defined by your work. I'm just glad that I'm being able to completely disconnect from work, when I check out. My tittle means nothing. Where I work means nothing. I do enjoy my co-workers, that's about it.

toomuchtodo 3y ago

The desire for meaning through their work is used against a worker. https://www.fuqua.duke.edu/duke-fuqua-insights/kay-passion-exploitation https://www.fuqua.duke.edu/duke-fuqua-insights/kay-passion-e... > The researchers found that people consider it more legitimate to make passionate employees leave family to work on a weekend, work unpaid, and handle unrelated tasks that were not in the job description. > The team found passion exploitation consistently across eight studies with more than 2,400 total participants. The studies varied in design, in the participants (students, managers, random online samples) and in the kinds of jobs they considered. > In one study, participants who read that an artist was strongly passionate about his job said it was more legitimate for the boss to exploit the artist than those who read the artist wasn’t as passionate. This finding extended to asking for work far beyond the job description, including leaving a day at the park with family and cleaning the office bathroom. Study: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30998042/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30998042/

hotpotamus 3y ago

Well most humans do, but psychopaths (and I speak from personal experience) probably do not, and the smarter among them tend to do really well in the American corporate context.

agumonkey 3y ago
that's true, the economy doesn't reward human needs and the bad ones bubble up above and end up controlling your life..

TrackerFF 3y ago

It is even worse in certain Asian countries. Your entire identity and self-worth is defined by your work. I'm just glad that I'm being able to completely disconnect from work, when I check out. My tittle means nothing. Where I work means nothing. I do enjoy my co-workers, that's about it.