Feed: Lifestyle | The Guardian
Posted on: Monday, March 21, 2022 12:00 PM
Author: Alvin Chang
Subject: Workplaces are in denial over how much Americans have changed
| Employers are trying desperately to ignore that we've become fundamentally different humans Nearly six months before Covid-19, the Yale historian Frank Snowden wrote a book about epidemics and pandemics. What he found was that these periods of suffering reshape not just how societies function, but also how humans want to spend their limited time on Earth. "Epidemic diseases reach into the deepest levels of the human psyche," he said in 2020. "They pose the ultimate questions about death, about mortality: what is life for? What is our relationship with God?" |