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Woke work is unhappy work

3 December 2021

9:00 AM

3 December 2021

9:00 AM

The more that we talk about work/life balance and diverse and inclusive workplaces, the unhappier we seem to be.

Over the last two decades, and especially most recently, corporate Australia has gone into overdrive with many measures aimed at improving workplace culture. New OHS practices, EAP hotlines, mental health initiatives, the commemoration of so many days for various causes, LGTBIQ committees, millennial mentoring, working-from-home arrangements (amplified by COVID), empathy training for managers, fruit bowls, in-house yoga sessions, internal comms strategies…

At the same time, presentations for mental and emotional health reasons in the overall community are very significantly up, including the further...

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