perhaps ‘outdated’ measures of productivity rather than ‘pretending’ to work. ‘Many companies still equate being present and ...

“If people do not want to work, they won’t.” Case in point: One HR director reported to Fortune a rise in downloads of mouse ...

With the end of remote work flexibility ... and they are quickly learning that looking busy is sometimes more important than actually being busy. The culture writer Anne Helen Petersen described ...

Connect their daily work to the bigger mission so they see why their contribution matters. Your behavior sets the tone. If you're checking boxes, looking busy, and valuing appearance over ...

For some of Generation Z, the latest rebellious trend in the work place is 'task masking' - pretending to work by doing various activities to mimic looking busy. Instead of sitting down to focus ...