CHAPTER EIGHTEEN

Disrupting What It Means to Be a Productive and Healthy Workplace

THAMARA SUBRAMANIAN

Equity Audit and Strategy Manager

The Winters Group, Inc.

(she/her/hers)

If you buy into grind culture, you actually are aligning yourself with the concept that you’re not a divine human being and that your worth has already been given to you by the fact that you’re alive. Your birth is your worth.

TRICIA HERSEY

“Hustle Harder.”

“Work Hard Play Hard.”

“The Grind.”

You’ve heard it everywhere, from products and celebrities, social media and television, to corporate training and K–12 education. Throughout American history, from the origins of slavery to “welcoming” immigrants to this country, the expectation was and continues to be “a productive ...

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