The downside of hyper-positivity at work

Our workplace communication is filled with a glut of happy face emojis, exclamation points, and declarations of false familiarity. What’s the cost?

The other day, I read a tweet in which someone asked if positive people are more successful than others, or if being positive leads to more success. It’s an interesting question, not because it has an answer, but because it contains a common assumption: that success and positivity are necessarily correlated. Amidst all the happy face emojis and exclamation points punctuating mundane sentences with false familiarity, how often do people ask if all that positivity is, well, positive?

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