Is 'Kind Productivity' the Future of Work?

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Is 'Kind Productivity' the Future of Work?
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The emerging trend centered around kindness could be the key to achieving the best work-life balance, experts told Newsweek.

Is this kind?If every decision made by every person at work—where many of us spend most of our daily lives—were to begin with that one question, what would the workplace look like?Laura Tan is a company director, 'a lifelong grafter', and a firm believer that kindness could be the key to the work-life balance we're all striving for—and experts say she is certainly on to something.

'The Dangers of Toxic ProductivityStress and burnout can result from 'toxic productivity,' which is 'the harmful tendency for someone to derive a significant amount of self-worth from how productive they are,' Natalie Dattilo, a licensed clinical psychologist and instructor of psychology at Harvard Medical School in Boston, told Newsweek.

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