Carewashing: The threat eroding trust at workplace

As workers see a gap between rhetoric and reality, cynicism takes over and becomes very hard to break.

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In a new Nairobi startup's expansive, open-plan office, with keystrokes and intermittent phone rings interrupting the silence, Omuga and Ndung’u face vastly disparate realities in the workplace.

Omuga, a project manager, is regularly infuriated by a manager's constant imposition in a 'work hard, play hard' office. On the other side of the room, Ndung’u, a software developer, grapples with a peer's undermining comments that chip at his confidence daily.

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