The Cost of Code-Switching: Belonging in Corporate America
Employees experience heightened burnout as they navigate professional spaces where they are underrepresented, often feeling pressured to code-switch to advance their careers. This pressure to adjust their communication, behavior, and even aspects of their core identity to meet corporate expectations can lead to significant emotional and psychological strain. The consequences are strikingly evident: a surge in burnout rates, job dissatisfaction, a profound sense of not belonging, and resignations.
In The Cost of Code-Switching: Belonging in Corporate America, George Paasewe delves deep into the uncharted territory of code-switching in the corporate world. This eye-opening book uncovers the intricate challenges confronting employees in their pursuit of belonging, highlighting an overlooked crisis.
Employees experience heightened burnout as they navigate professional spaces where they are underrepresented, often feeling pressured to code-switch to advance their careers. This pressure to adjust their communication, behavior, and even aspects of their core identity to meet corporate expectations can lead to significant emotional and psychological strain. The consequences are strikingly evident: a surge in burnout rates, job dissatisfaction, a profound sense of not belonging, and resignations.
In The Cost of Code-Switching: Belonging in Corporate America, George Paasewe delves deep into the uncharted territory of code-switching in the corporate world. This eye-opening book uncovers the intricate challenges confronting employees in their pursuit of belonging, highlighting an overlooked crisis.
Employees experience heightened burnout as they navigate professional spaces where they are underrepresented, often feeling pressured to code-switch to advance their careers. This pressure to adjust their communication, behavior, and even aspects of their core identity to meet corporate expectations can lead to significant emotional and psychological strain. The consequences are strikingly evident: a surge in burnout rates, job dissatisfaction, a profound sense of not belonging, and resignations.
In The Cost of Code-Switching: Belonging in Corporate America, George Paasewe delves deep into the uncharted territory of code-switching in the corporate world. This eye-opening book uncovers the intricate challenges confronting employees in their pursuit of belonging, highlighting an overlooked crisis.