Harry Wallop

You are often cast as this awful bully who believes that if you are have any sort of disability or or you come from some minority, you should sort of quash work.

And that's not what it's about.

The backlash against authenticity and bringing your whole self to work is actually, you know what?

I want you to bring your work self to work, your professional self to work.

You may be having a terrible time at home and we may be sympathetic about that, in which case probably stay at home.

But don't come to work and start spouting off your political opinions, your view on any hot topic and saying, ah, I'm just being authentic.

You know, it's like, no, this is a workplace.

We have work to be done here.

Yeah, we all, you know, we all endlessly spend our life.

I think the modern, the younger generation, they use the language of actually, you know, the therapist couch.

They would say masking.

You know, we all mask ourselves in all sorts of situations.

You know, if you're if you're if you're you know, your child has died in some terrible accident, you go into the corner shop and a corner shop owner says, you know, hi, have a good day.

You're not you're not going to say I've had a terrible day.

You just realize that's just that's how society works.

We all present different personalities in different situations.

And I think after a good sort of six or seven years, very much encouraged by Covid of saying, actually, we should bring our wholesales to work.

Actually, no.

Sometimes putting on a work mask is not a bad idea, partly because.

Most offices and most workplaces rely on kind of teamwork and it's all kind of slightly rubbing along and some vague consensus that this is how we make products, we sell our services and it would be better if we all agreed with that or at least we pretended to agree with that.