Is There a Nine to Five Idea?

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Work can make us sometimes feel like hen we're on the internet, but really reasoning by ourselves. Being a solitary reasoner is different from being a collaborative reasoner. People often cravepuaears of importance, officeness, near of importance. We are very much married to this nine to five idea, even if no one's actually doing anything. A lot of bosses like to see people around, even if they're not actually working,. It gives this veneer of importance, like, you know, the butter's being churned or whatever. And it's just more like an office ness, not productivity.

In this live taping of the podcast at Caveat in NYC, Dr. Tessa West, the author of Jerks at Work, conducts quizzes to see what kind of jerk you are and what kind of jerk most-easily persuades you in the workplace. You will also learn how to counteract the behaviors of people who make work suck more than it should.

West is a leading expert on interpersonal interaction and communication and will explain how to make work suck less as we return to our offices and figure out how to balance working remotely with working in-person after a year of re-imagining what work even means. West’s new book is an exploration of all the psychological research into how and why gaslighters, bulldozers, neglectors, micromanagers and more do their thing in our workplaces and how to use what we know from decades of psychological research to counteract their Machiavellian machinations.

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