Do You Prioritize Work Ethic Above Other Ethics?

Audrey Batterham
3 min readMar 31, 2021

We should care about people, not productivity.

Photo by Carl Heyerdahl on Unsplash, and marked up by Audrey Batterham.

In my first reflection on whether it’s possible that care workers could “care too much,” I argued that it’s not the feeling of care that’s at issue, but the attachment to the futures we imagine for the people in our care.

Now I call into question how much we care about work itself.

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Audrey Batterham

Audrey is an educator, counsellor, and curriculum developer running her own business in Toronto. She writes about social services, mostly. audreybatterham.com.