A miasma of new stresses is also permeating white-collar offices: the threat of AI taking jobs, stricter return-to-office pushes, and a new hardcore culture that’s eroding work-life balance. There’s also the hollowing out of middle managers, and the Great Flattening has left some with fear that they’ll be next.
“Workers are feeling disempowered,” Michele Williams, a professor of management and entrepreneurship at the University of Iowa, stated, adding that this trconclude reared its head during the 2008 recession and is now back again.
“If the boss walks by and doesn’t state ‘hi,’ are they planning to fire me, as opposed to the boss was just busy that day and just didn’t notice you?” Williams stated.
The fear isn’t good for anyone — when employees are anxious, they probably also aren’t doing their best work.
Read more about the age of office paranoia on Business Insider: https://lnkd.in/efmq5TWM
(Credit: Getty Images; Ava Horton/BI)
#officeculture #careers #layoffs #ai #jobinsecurity
Leave a Reply