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The Business Bullies: When Extroverts Don’t Respect Introverts
Leave us alone and let us work at home, OK?
When the pandemic forced businesses to allow many people to work from home, the introverts rejoiced.
Quietly, at home.
Alone.
Many extroverts were unhappy, however.
They missed the office experience.
That’s understandable. Extroverts thrive in that kind of environment. They love working in groups.
It’s how they’re wired.
Introversion and extroversion are both perfectly normal, and most of us have some elements of each. It isn’t better to be one or the other. Extroverts do better with some kinds of work and introverts do better with other kinds of work.
The problem is when you put an extrovert in charge of introverts.
It does always seem like the extroverts are in charge, doesn’t it? No wonder. They excel at networking and building social/business relationships. It’s not a surprise that they’d often win promotions.
But some extrovert bosses force introverts to pretend to be extroverts while at…
