Work Pray Code (eBook)

When Work Becomes Religion in Silicon Valley

Carolyn Chen (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2022
272 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-22087-1 (ISBN)

Infos

How tech giants are reshaping spirituality to serve their religion of peak productivitySilicon Valley is known for its lavish perks, intense work culture, and spiritual gurus. Work Pray Code explores how tech companies are bringing religion into the workplace in ways that are replacing traditional places of worship, blurring the line between work and religion and transforming the very nature of spiritual experience in modern life.Over the past forty years, highly skilled workers have been devoting more time and energy to their jobs than ever before. They are also leaving churches, synagogues, and temples in droves-but they have not abandoned religion. Carolyn Chen spent more than five years in Silicon Valley, conducting a wealth of in-depth interviews and gaining unprecedented access to the best and brightest of the tech world. The result is a penetrating account of how work now satisfies workers' needs for belonging, identity, purpose, and transcendence that religion once met. Chen argues that tech firms are offering spiritual care such as Buddhist-inspired mindfulness practices to make their employees more productive, but that our religious traditions, communities, and public sphere are paying the price.We all want our jobs to be meaningful and fulfilling. Work Pray Code reveals what can happen when work becomes religion, and when the workplace becomes the institution that shapes our souls.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.3.2022
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Personalwesen
• Schlagworte: African Americans • alcoholism • Ambiguity • Amy Cuddy • Andy Puddicombe • Anger • Arousal • Ashram • asian people • Asperger Syndrome • Automaton • avocado toast • Barista • Betterment • Brochure • Buddhism • Buddhist Meditation • Business guru • Business Networking • Cafeteria • Capability • Capitalism • Career • Catholic Church • Chester Carlson • Christian fraternity • Civil Rights Act of 1964 • Coaching • Coca-Cola • Cognitive Training • Competitive advantage • Convenience • Counterculture • credentialing • dance studio • Dartmouth College • deity • depiction • Deregulation • deskilling • Dharma talk • Disruptive innovation • distraction • Doctrine • dog park • Drinking the Kool-Aid • eastern religions • Economic Inequality • Economics • electricity • Elton Mayo • emotional baggage • Employment • Energy medicine • Entrepreneurship • Equanimity • Ernst Troeltsch • faithfulness • Fight-or-flight response • Fixed asset • Funding • Gardening • Gary Hamel • Germans • God • grandparent • Greens Restaurant • greeting • Haight-Ashbury • Harvard Medical School • Headache • High- and low-level • Hippie • housing development • Human Capital • Human Resources • Incense • Indian Americans • Institution • Institutional Economics • Instrumentalism • Internship • Italians • Jack Kornfield • Jon Kabat-Zinn • Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion • Knowledge Worker • labour law • Laity • Layoff • LinkedIn • Literature • lyft • Major religious groups • Management Styles • Marketing • meal • mental process • Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction • moksha • Monasticism • Monopolization • Montego Bay • mortality rate • Muslim • Nap pods • nonbeliever • Obligation • On Track • Operating margin • organization • Organizational Behavior • Paella • Paper towel • perception • Personal Branding • Personal life • Pomnyun • Product design • Provision (accounting) • psychotherapy • Quantity • Religion • Religiosity • Religious Community • Restaurant • Return on Investment • Robert Noyce • Root Cause • Sentient beings (Buddhism) • serenity prayer • Shirt • Siddha Yoga • Silicon Valley • Snack • social networking service • Society of Jesus • Sociology • Spirituality • Spiritual practice • Spring Break • startup company • Statistic • Stephen Covey • Strategic Management • stress management • structural functionalism • suburb • Suffering • Superiority (short story) • superordinate goals • Supporter • sustainability • tax avoidance • The Container Store • The Most Extreme • The Other Hand • Thích Nh?t H?nh • Tim Ferriss • Transcendental Meditation • Universalism • Vedanta • veneration • Vihara • Volunteering • vulnerability • wage • WalMart • Wealth • welfare • white people • Wisdom Tradition • Woodworking • Workforce • Work–Life Balance • workplace • Worship • Zendo
• ISBN-10: 0-691-22087-5 / 0691220875
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-22087-1 / 9780691220871