For the nearly 1 in 4 US adults with chronic pain, employers’ expectations of a healthy body can lead to shame Having to deal with chronic pain at work is all too familiar for Americans in many occupations.

Why do workers in chronic pain get stuck in a vicious cycle of pain and shame? And how can they break free? Our new piece in @theconversation.com provides key insights from our recent Academy of Management Journal study: theconversation.com/for-the-near...

Reckoning With the Ideal Worker Body: A Qualitative Study of Workers in Chronic Pain | Academy of Management Journal Implicit in the ideal worker norm is the assumption of the ideal worker body, a body that is always ready and willing to meet work demands. Yet, bodies vary in their ability to meet this ideal. Throug...

Happy to share our new study (now online at Academy of Management Journal): Workers with chronic pain get trapped in a vicious cycle as they try to meet “ideal worker body” expectations. But some "break free" from this cycle by accepting a "sufficient worker body." journals.aom.org/doi/10.5465/...