The Cost of Belonging: How Workplace Mantras Quietly Erode Our Humanity

We don’t always notice the trade-offs we make.

Sometimes they show up as quiet compromises: working through lunch, nodding through a meeting that leaves your gut in knots, writing a performance review that leaves out the real story because it’s “not the place.” Other times, it’s a belief we adopt—because it’s been said so often, we stop questioning it.

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