The Myth of Work-Life Balance: Why Gen Z and Millennials are Burning Out in the Corporate World
In Zürich I am surrounded by people (including my husband) working in the finance sector, big 4 consultancies, banks, insurances - all the big corporations. The stories I hear, the way they speak to each other about their workplace, I am surprised they can function properly at all. Psychopathy in the general population is only thought to be about 1%, in a prison population its around 15%, and the percentage of corporate senior leadership who display psychopathic traits is 12% .
In the world of power struggles, political games and more narcissists than desks, there lives a mythical creature called Work-Life Balance. Everyone chases it but few are able to grab a hold. With advice from experts that reads: “Renormalize” or “embrace the way your brain works” or “set boundaries”, no wonder people are still suffering. If you have truly been saddled a boss who is a psychopath, the only solution is to remain out of the line of fire, by way of ego-stroking and offering as little resistance as po…
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