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Psychological safety isn’t a nice-to-have. It’s infrastructure. And right now, it’s being demolished at scale. When the companies reduce headcount and remaining employees have to absorb the work, while living with higher fear and lower trust. People go in survival mode, and risk burning out.
https://medium.com/design-bootcamp/we-took-away-psychological-safety-and-then-told-everyone-to-be-more-productive-47ed1fac491c

We took away psychological safety and then told everyone to be more productive

How the modern economy destroyed the one thing that actually makes people do good work — and then had the audacity to expect more.

Medium

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Stef Walter 2d ago

And in such an environment, creativity, risk taking, and thus innovation, slowly gets shoved away. You cannot ask people to innovate creatively or challenge assumptions while their job feels precarious and the environment punishes mistakes.

Article by Liz Dugan (12min)
https://medium.com/design-bootcamp/we-took-away-psychological-safety-and-then-told-everyone-to-be-more-productive-47ed1fac491c

We took away psychological safety and then told everyone to be more productive

How the modern economy destroyed the one thing that actually makes people do good work — and then had the audacity to expect more.

Medium

Great article

good points

New knowledge for me

I hated reading it because of the picture

Edit:. Yknow what, I'm going to try and elaborate and not just be a poop. I would rather see the art even non-artists make by hand in the same amount of time that was spent writing that prompt.

I want to be there with the author as they lead me through their work. I want to see them, and I don't want their hard, very well done work forced to share page space with slop created by evil, y'know? I'm sorry for coming out fighting, but it was a REALLY good article

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Stef Walter

@TeflonTrout yeah, I hope we stop the AI pictures to illustrate articles, it brings nothing, and it's usually quite uncanny. Might be interesting to tell the author though, maybe they imagined this picture helped? (also to be fair, I read everything using the reader mode, so I had to double check to see the picture, that kind of brings the point to "this one is quite useless"

Is the writer accesible to give feedback to? I'd be happy to, and I will be tactful from the beginning this time. I'm sorry again.