Our workplaces offer major opportunities to combat virtualization and dissociation.
One prime area where we can start re-grounding ourselves in literal reality is in our working lives—which are, after all, the main area where, as social animals, we derive our sense of position and identity.
There are a number of things we can do to make work less dissociative and demeaning—some just for ourselves, others for other people as well.
More Specifics
De-virtualization in the workplace begins with us.
If we manage others, we have expanded opportunities to foster reality-grounding.
Managing other managers entails special risks as well as benefits.
If we're in a position to use management consultants, we should be careful about what we expect of them, and what we will allow them to do.
When our own organization superiors are part of the dissociation problem, they must be handled with particular care.
We can all contribute to a shift in the prevailing climate of business opinion on certain key issues.
We can resist virtualization of workplaces in general by our approach to investing in the stock market.
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