Gen Z is adopting the trend of task masking. Here’s how managers can effectively respond. What is task masking, exactly? Well, if you’re at a loss, you’re not alone. It took me about an hour to even ...

As more employees are called back into the office, a new workplace trend is emerging, especially among Gen Z: task masking. This growing phenomenon involves looking busy while doing little meaningful ...

TikTok has been abuzz with the workplace trend “task-masking” — that is, making yourself look busy so that your boss thinks you’re hard at work. Cue behaviors like pounding hard on the keyboard, ...

Severance is the hit sci-fi show about office workers who “sever” their consciousness—slipping into another mode the moment they arrive at the office, then forgetting everything about their 9-to-5 as ...