Work's Emotional Reckoning

“I realize this is awkward, but I truly want to understand more about how you are feeling. Would you be comfortable talking about this?”

Couldn’t sleep for shit last night and am still somewhat tired, so I was browsing business journalism, as I sometimes do, and came across this article about managerial roles in return to work contexts. It’s an OK article. 55 million versions of this article have been written in the past three months. I actually just wrote a halfway-decent edition of thi…