Being at Work: Using Existentialism to Make Sense of Your Organisational Life

This thought-provoking and ground-breaking book offers a way for us all to consider our experience of being at work, and of the nature of working life.Written in an engaging and accessible style, it presents the practical means by which to apply central features of existentialism to make sense of how we relate to work and the workplace. These include topics such as freedom and choice, looking for purpose and making meaning, and authenticity.We spend a great deal of time at work, and being at work is often a challenge.Reference to the past in a corporate context tends to see it as a graveyard for errors and failures; the future is something articulated by senior leaders and the place to which we are expected to travel, in terms of their definition.The (specious) present is the place where we experience our being in the moment, the location where we do our work … but it is rarely acknowledged in the places where we work.This book offers new insights into how we can all meaningfully live