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Lab Rats: How Silicon Valley Made Work Miserable for the Rest of Us
November 2, 2018 @ 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm
FreeFrom Powell’s website:
At a time of soaring corporate profits and plenty of HR lip service about “wellness,” millions of workers – in virtually every industry – are deeply unhappy. Why did work become so miserable? Who is responsible? Dan Lyons’s Lab Rats: How Silicon Valley Made Work Miserable for the Rest of Us (Hachette) is a groundbreaking examination of how the half-baked ideas of Silicon Valley and its “new oligarchs” have changed the way we work, damaged our brains, and left us poorer and insecure.
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