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When businesses tell people to keep their identity out of the workplace, they are causing mental health harm. Period.
The effort to hide, the message that they should be ashamed of who they are because coworkers are uncomfortable, isn’t just about being kind; it’s a real workplace mental health issue. The question isn’t about whether it causes harm; it’s about whether you, as an employer, care that you are causing harm.
Maybe the best advice is at the end of the article – assume you are being manipulated.
This relationship might be the biggest indicator of whether your best people stay, yet you give the person in charge of it almost no training on how to manage it effectively.
Please, make it make sense.
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When you get the title, people will bring you things and hand off responsibility to things that you didn’t know existed. Even though you were sitting right there, in the team that you now lead, you don’t know how many things the previous person in that chair never bothered to tell you about, or the relationships across other teams that made their life easier that you need to build. Many of those things didn’t just happen; effort went into knowing what to do and who to talk to.