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Why Work Sucks and How to Fix It:
The tool for pushing back against demand is control.
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Why Work Sucks and How to Fix It:
When people have high demands and high control, their life can be hectic but manageable. They figure out what needs to be done and when.
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Why Work Sucks and How to Fix It:
When people have high demands and low control, their life is both hectic and miserable. They are trapped in a system that piles on the demands but denies them the control to meet those demands.
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Why Work Sucks and How to Fix It:
If you don’t give people more control over how they meet the demands of work and life, people aren’t going to be able to give their best at either.
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Why Work Sucks and How to Fix It:
At companies around the world people opt out of flexible work arrangements for fear of committing career suicide.
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Why Work Sucks and How to Fix It:
People just want to be trusted to do their work. They want to be trusted to as adults in the workplace, adults who will do their jobs.
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Why Work Sucks and How to Fix It:
Everyone knows what trust feels like and flexible work arrangements are not about trust.
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Why Work Sucks and How to Fix It:
…the only thing worse than complete mistrust is mistrust masquerading as trust.
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Why Work Sucks and How to Fix It:
It’s draining and demoralizing for employees to have to listen to management pretend to trust them while behaving as if they don’t.
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Why Work Sucks and How to Fix It:
As opposed to being a way to make work suck less, flexible work arrangements actually reinforce the status quo. In fact, flextime can make life suck more.
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