CEOs Need to Stop Bragging About 4 A.M. Alarm Clocks—Here’s Why

A warning from workplace experts suggests early-morning boasts do more than irritate employees—they fuel burnout and set dangerous cultural expectations.

BY BRUCE CRUMLEY @BRUCEC_INC

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Unmistakable workplace “humble bragging” tends to send eyeballs rolling among employees hearing it. That reaction is more discret in responding to bosses who—yet again—mention their habits of rising indecently early to start work each morning. But while that form of matinal masochism may be an increasingly frequent boast among all levels of workers—especially as pressure increases on staff to demonstrate industriousness and improved productivity—all the crowing about job-inspired sleep deprivation may be having negative........

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