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The way we think about work is broken

Barry Schwartz · TED

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About

What makes work satisfying? Apart from a paycheck, there are intangible values that, Barry Schwartz suggests, our current way of thinking about work simply ignores. It's time to stop thinking of workers as cogs on a wheel.

The talk

  1. The way we think about work is broken 8 min · TED's player

Credits and licence

Institution
TED
Department
TED2014
Speaker
Barry Schwartz
Year
2014
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Economics, Business and management, Psychology and the brain
Source
TED
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, as TED states it. Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions. TED's terms
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