PERFORMANCEEmotional Labor signals
Anonymous thoughts about emotional labor.
The emotional management performed without acknowledgment.
The energy spent maintaining other people's comfort.
Unpaid, largely invisible, and producing real exhaustion.
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Emotional labor is the work of managing your own emotions to serve the emotional needs of others — and of managing the emotional climate of a situation. It's unpaid, largely invisible, and falls disproportionately on some people. It produces real exhaustion that doesn't have a name in most contexts.
Anonymous thoughts about emotional labor posted here are from people who do most of it — the honest account of the work that doesn't appear on any resume and accumulates without acknowledgment.