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E18. Corporate Gaslighting & Pay-to-Play Awards
Welcome to Season 2 of Love Letters to Troublemakers (formerly Circle Back Club): (Not) The Best Places to Work.
In our season premiere, Aparna Rae and co-conspirator Rob Hadley take a sledgehammer to the multi-million-dollar industrial complex of workplace certifications.
From the pay-to-play economics of top workplace lists to the glaring hypocrisy of companies like Enron and Amazon taking home awards, we pull back the curtain on why these lists actually exist.
We explore how these certifications are designed to inflate executive egos, act as recruitment shields, and gaslight workers into…
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