Sobremesa(talent) - Who Broke Work?
Work was never supposed to carry this much weight. For most of history, meaning came from elsewhere — faith, family, the place you were born. Then something shifted. The job became the answer to every existential question we didn't want to sit with.
Simone de Beauvoir wrote that the tragedy of modern life is outsourcing your freedom to a structure someone else built. We didn't read that. We built the structure anyway.
And then we tried to make the structure feel good. Surveys. Wellness budgets. Engagement scores. Global employee engagement just fell for only the second time in 12 years — a drop on par with the year of COVID lockdowns. Only one in three workers globally describes themselves as thriving.
We didn't neglect the problem. We industrialised our response to it. And the numbers got worse.
So maybe the question was always wrong. Not how do we improve engagement, but why did we need work to make us feel whole in the first place?
To pull that thread, we're joined by Sergio Cancelo, co-founder of Happyforce, who has spent years tracking what the happiness data actually says and what it carefully avoids saying.
We'll ask:
What are we really measuring when we measure happiness at work?
And what fills the space when the score stops mattering?
🍷 2 drinks + snacks included.
📍 Sobremesa(talent): Where HR stops reacting, and starts rethinking.
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