Work Place

People wanna work at places that give 'em free food, and swag, and it's a prestigious organisation, or I have a prestigious title, where I can make a best friend at work, the things that we are told over and over again go into making a good work culture. In reality, those are some of the least prioritised things for the majority of workers in America today. To the extent that leadership of companies are under these illusions, they will continue to incentivize and design environments that are no longer a very good fit to the true trade-off priorities of the workforce. What people want is work to be a positive part of the rest of their life. They wanna be trusted to be able to make decisions about how they do their work, and they are expecting more meaning and purpose in their work. The thing that will hold us back from a good life, rather than just working to work, are these illusions that keep pulling us back to conformity to something for which the group no longer actually values. We all don't have to quit our job and go somewhere else to find fulfilment. That it is closer than we think, and a lot of it is just subtle changes, particularly around giving more control to employees, trusting them more, listening to the things they care about.