Is this kind?

If every decision made by every person at work—where many of us spend most of our daily lives—were to begin with that one question, what would the workplace look like?

Laura Tan is a company director, “a lifelong grafter”, and a firm believer that kindness could be the key to the work-life balance we’re all striving for—and experts say she is certainly on to something.

The 39-year-old told Newsweek: “There has to be a middle ground between previous ‘hardcore’ attitudes towards productivity that aren’t healthy and a new emerging attitude that feels a bit ‘anti-work’ and anti-ambition.”

That middle ground being “kind productivity,” a term recently pondered by Tan that prompted a lot of discussion and approval after she shared it on LinkedIn.

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