Work pray code : when work becomes religion in Silicon Valley / Carolyn Chen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chen, Carolyn, author.

Contributor:

Lim, Jennifer.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Corporate culture.

Religion in the workplace.

Employees--Religious life.

Employees.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 pages)

Edition:

Unabridged.

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2022]

System Details:

audio file

Summary:

How tech giants are reshaping spirituality to serve their religion of peak productivitySilicon Valley is known for its lavish perks, intense work culture, and spiritual gurus. Work Pray Code explores how tech companies are bringing religion into the workplace in ways that are replacing traditional places of worship, blurring the line between work and religion and transforming the very nature of spiritual experience in modern life.Over the past forty years, highly skilled workers have been devoting more time and energy to their jobs than ever before. They are also leaving churches, synagogues, and temples in droves—but they have not abandoned religion. Carolyn Chen spent more than five years in Silicon Valley, conducting a wealth of in-depth interviews and gaining unprecedented access to the best and brightest of the tech world. The result is a penetrating account of how work now satisfies workers’ needs for belonging, identity, purpose, and transcendence that religion once met. Chen argues that tech firms are offering spiritual care such as Buddhist-inspired mindfulness practices to make their employees more productive, but that our religious traditions, communities, and public sphere are paying the price.We all want our jobs to be meaningful and fulfilling. Work Pray Code reveals what can happen when work becomes religion, and when the workplace becomes the institution that shapes our souls.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction. How Work Is Replacing Religion

Chapter 1. Losing My Religion . . . and Finding It at Work

Chapter 2. Corporate Maternalism: Nurturing Body and Soul

Chapter 3. Managing Souls: The Spiritual Cultivation of Human Capital

Chapter 4. The Dharma according to Google

Chapter 5. Killing the Buddha

Conclusion. Techtopia: Privatized Wholeness and Public Brokenness

Appendix A. Finding the Sacred in a Secular Valley

Appendix B. Studying the Souls of Tech Folk

Notes

Index

Participant:

Narrator: Jennifer Lim.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780691220888

0691220883

9780691220871

0691220875

OCLC:

1290483937