She has also served as a contributing editor and columnist for Parenting magazine and as a financial markets columnist for the Associated Press. She combines her work life with an active family of her own. It is the failure to treat their workers as whole human beings. This conclusion is not from some far-out think tank or interest group. Enterprises see productivity plummet and competitive advantage erode when their people have no time to pay attention to fundamental human relationships, starting with families and the natural world of which we are a part.
Individuals loose their way.
And the larger community is diminished. The struggle is as old as the Industrial Revolution, when the serious wedge was first driven between family and work. Curiously, the acknowledged seduction of today s business world, while still intoxicating, is no longer enough. Shellenbarger characterizes today s workers as alienated. She s observed that alienation in all kinds of workplaces, from the highest tech to the factory floor to the ranks of disaffected managers.