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Here’s the episode:

We’re talking about working from home, and in particular, how working from home has caused so many of us to have a collision between our personal and professional lives … a “puncturing” of an illusion of perfection that many of us have created. So we dive deep on the following:

  • What is a private vs. professional persona?

  • How this is potentially helpful and potentially harmful in the workplace?

  • Some tips for how to best navigate between private and professional personas.

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Grandey, A. A. (2003). When “the show must go on”: Surface acting and deep acting as determinants of emotional exhaustion and peer-rated service delivery. Academy of Management Journal, 46(1), 86-96. https://journals.aom.org/doi/abs/10.5465/30040678

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