The Blunder Years, Episode 11: Is work even psychologically safe?

When work is all-consuming or all-encompassing for a person, what might happen to them if they get laid off or the company fades away?

I've written a couple of times about this idea of "psychological safety" -- here and here, notably -- and you may know it as a major finding of Google's "Project Aristotle," which was a quest to build the perfect team and gets mentioned in about 9,733 management articles per week somewhere on the Internet. The thing is, though: it's true. How would a te…