Work won’t love you back

07/11/22 • 19 min

Fast Track: Career conversations with Margie Hartley

We've all heard the entrepreneurial saying “If you find a job you love, you’ll never work a day in your life.” The concept of loving our work has swept the world in the last 20 years and now workers and employers are clashing over return-to-office plans with large sways of the population considering changing jobs and even industry. Margie Hartley talks to journalist and author of ‘Work Won’t Love You Back: How devotion to our jobs keeps us Exploited, Exhausted and Alone,’ Sarah Jaffe, about why our work doesn’t need to be our passion and how to have a mindset around work that’s enabling rather than exhausting.

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Creating Positive Workplaces

Does a positive workplace lead to more engaged employees and higher productivity? Does positivity make us successful or is it success that makes us positive? And what does a positive workplace look like? Margie Hartley talks to Clinical and Coaching Psychologist, author and founder of The Positivity Institute, Dr Suzy Green about the evidence-based research that points to a positive workplace as a hugely powerful thing, why positive workplaces require effort to achieve and what individuals and organisations can do to create a positive working environment.