Why You Dread Work: What'S Going Wrong In Your Workplace And How To Fix It

Ever felt that lurking sense of Sunday night dread?

It’s not just you.

In this warm and empathetic guide to the modern workplace, find out exactly what’s going wrong in your workplace – and how you can improve your working week. Drawing upon expert research and employee interviews, Helen Holmes looks at questions such as:

• Why are some colleagues so headache-inducing?

• How can you focus when you’re being bombarded by emails and meetings?
• Are you being fairly paid relative to your colleagues?

Fear, lack of focus and unfairness can do major damage to workplace culture, but they can be overcome with goodwill, purpose and trust. Holmes offers empathy and pragmatism for anyone who’s ever contemplated quitting their job and running for the hills, and she provides inspiring case studies and practical tips for crafting a better working week, one step at a time.

As a product management specialist and author, Helen Holmes has spent twenty years combining a career in technology with writing and journalism. Her five previous fiction books (Oxford University Press and others) have been translated into six languages. A 2015 Timewise Power List winner, Holmes illustrates a Forbes column on fintech and is a regular contributor to successful satirical news site The Daily Mash. Her articles, along with sketches for TV show The Mash Report, have been viewed, commented on or shared online more than 7.6 million times.