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How often do you feel like an actual human being at work?

LIke someone who is valued, seen, appreciated and respected. Like a full 3-D person with emotions, quirks, brilliance, cofusion, crankiness and all the other stuff that makes us, us.

My guess is not often enough. Workplaces are often the most inhuman places we experience in our lives. Because somehow we got the idea that this is the way to get the results we want. Beat people down, keep it “all business” all the time and watch all the arrows move up and to the right.

Except that’s not how it works. Study after study confirms that companies do better when they treat people fairly and humanely. When they invite people to show up fully. When they stop using dumb corporate lingo like “circle back” and simply say, “let’s talk later.”

The robots may be coming for our jobs but many of us became just like those robots long, long ago.

We can do better.

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