I read Dan Lyons ‘Disrupted’ about his experiences working with Hubspot and found it very interesting. With Lab Rats, Lyons makes a passionate plea for business leaders to understand this dangerous transformation, showing how profit and happy employees can indeed coexist. These dystopian beliefs-often masked by pithy slogans like 'We're a Team, Not a Family'-have dire consequences: millions of workers who are subject to constant change, dehumanizing technologies-even health risks.Ī few companies, however, get it right.

He shows how new tools, workplace practices, and business models championed by tech's empathy-impaired power brokers have shattered the social contract that once existed between companies and their employees. Legos, Lyons immersed himself in the often half-baked and frequently lucrative world of what passes for management science today. From the innovation-crazed headquarters of the Ford Motor Company in Detroit, to a cult-like 'Holocracy' workshop in San Francisco, and to corporate trainers who specialize in.

Why did work become so miserable? Who is responsible? And does any company have a model for doing it right?įor two years, Lyons ventured in search of answers. At a time of soaring corporate profits and plenty of HR lip service about 'wellness,' millions of workers-in virtually every industry-are deeply unhappy.

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