Do not bring your whole self to work
Why no one really wants to see it
A phrase that first became fashionable a decade ago is everywhere. “Bring your whole self” is one of four values that British Land, a property developer, trumpets on its website. Quartz, a publisher, ran a workshop last year called “How to navigate the whole-self workplace”. “Your whole self is welcome here,” pledges ing, a bank, to prospective employees. (Whole Foods uses the phrase on its global careers site, too, but it has a decent excuse.)
This article appeared in the Business section of the print edition under the headline “Your whole self”
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