The modern workplace is killing people and no one cares. That’s the sobering conclusion of Jeffrey Pfeffer’s new book “Dying for a Paycheck: How Modern Management Harms Employee Health and Company Performance—and What We Can Do About It.” In this episode, Stanford Professor Bob Sutton and Pfeffer, a professor of organizational behavior at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, discuss the toxic workplace practices that are making employees not just miserable but sick. To cure this dangerous state of affairs, Pfeffer prescribes a healthy dose of butting out: companies need to stop micromanaging, and let employees do their work and go home.
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