Your Boss Wants to Know Your Love Language So He Can Better Exploit You
The fad of employers using workers’ “love languages” as an HR tool is a good reminder that the boss will do anything to avoid giving you a raise.
While the specifics might be new and weird, the underlying aim of bosses getting to know their employees’ “love languages” is not. (Element5 Digital / Unsplash)
Your boss wants to know your love language.
That’s the subject of a recent article in the New York Times, which looks at state-of-the-art efforts by employers to squeeze out additional labor from their workforce without coughing up money for raises.
The piece looks at Pete Lien & Sons, a mining company in South Dakota, where an unlikely experiment is unfolding. As illustrated in photos throughout the article, miners at the company wear colorful stickers on their hardhats with icons that denote their respective love languages — quality time, words of affirmation, acts of service, or gifts.
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