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Bullying doesn’t stop at the initial attack. Abuse can in fact result in a chronic condition that may paralyze the recipient. Anxiety emerges in the form of intrusive, unwanted, and obsessive thought, which eventually leads to compulsive behavior. Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) is a cognitive prison: a dark tunnel of repetitive rumination that hammers the target’s psyche. Turn the page…

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In the article The End of the Job, Bridges reports that what we conceptualize as work will radically change. The ranks of those considered employees will be infiltrated and replaced by a large cohort of “independent” workers – freelancers, contractors, and parties who are relegated to the “swirling masses” who can be terminated at the drop of a hat. Turn the page…

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