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Silicon Valley Ruined Work Culture
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More and more offices in Corporate America are adopting the work culture invented by technology upstarts. Casual dress codes, free office meals, and the rise of remote work were meant to liberate employees from the drudgery of the office. Instead, Silicon Valley ruined work culture—not just for people in tech but for everyone else.
Offices used to be gulags, but they had a clear purpose. Then companies like Google came along and reinvented the rat race and, along the way, confused work with the rest of life. Forget about work-life balance. It's all about work-life integration.
Mike Robbins, an executive coach who has worked with companies like Google, Microsoft, Wells Fargo, and the NBA, says everyone wants to copy what's happening in Silicon Valley. But Silicon Valley's biggest export, Robbins says, is the collapsing barrier between work and life. There's a dark side. As the boundaries between work and life become more porous, everyone works all the time.
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