Should you be nice at work?
Kindness is in vogue
Kindness is in the air. Publishers produce business books with titles like “The Power of Nice” or, simply, “Kind”. LinkedIn, which is ostensibly a networking site for career-minded professionals, is overrun with sickly videos showing people being improbably generous to the homeless. Firms publicly embrace the values of compassion: one manufacturer of safety-gear talks of “offering grace internally”, which sounds terribly intrusive.
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This article appeared in the Business section of the print edition under the headline “Cool to be kind”
Business September 21st 2024
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