Attendees at a recent festival on workplace culture were asked to embrace the absurdity that 'happens when we stop rationalising and admit what doesn’t make sense'. Photograph: Martin Barraud/Getty Images
We accept many things in corporate life that, upon closer examination, are not normal at all.
Many professionals spend their days in client meetings, their time parcelled into billing-sized chunks. Nearly all of us move from one back-to-back meeting to another, all of it transactional, then carry on answering emails at night, in what Microsoft calls “the infinite workday”, where there are no time boundaries.
And to top it all, someone else has total power over us and our career path.
This cognitive dissonance
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