Study: Workers who fall for 'corporate bullshit' may be worse at their jobs
DamnInteresting
16 points
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March 23, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (3 comments)
SanjayMehta
These researchers aren't just researchers, they're thought leaders in this domain.
hoppyhoppy2
Discussed 17 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47274676
UqWBcuFx6NV4r
This is the sort of clickbait self-affirming tripe that HN absolutely eats up because they get to extrapolate it to “the only worthwhile employee is a software developer that’s very skeptical of business-speak but often falls for their own sometimes equally absurd tech culture BS-speak”