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Sparks: Make Work More Human: Breaking Assumptions About Work and How Employee Experience Can Make or Break Your Workforce

Sparks: Make Work More Human: Breaking Assumptions About Work and How Employee Experience Can Make or Break Your Workforce

Update: 2025-09-19
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Work is supposed to be human, but too often it feels like the opposite. For decades, we’ve built organizations on outdated assumptions: managers as “slave drivers,” employees as “cogs,” and work itself as “drudgery.” No wonder so many people feel disconnected. In today’s Leadership Spark, I break down what employee experience really means and why it’s the foundation of the future of work. We start by unpacking the basic concept of “experience” itself, how it shapes our memories, and why those memories define the relationships employees want, or don’t want, to have with their organizations. From there, we explore the flawed assumptions we’ve built work on, and what it takes to shift from a model of utility, where people need to work, to one of experience, where people want to show up. The future of work isn’t about cake, ping-pong tables, or corporate slogans. It’s about designing organizations where humanity comes first.

 

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Sparks: Make Work More Human: Breaking Assumptions About Work and How Employee Experience Can Make or Break Your Workforce

Sparks: Make Work More Human: Breaking Assumptions About Work and How Employee Experience Can Make or Break Your Workforce