Welcome to the workplace revolution: or, you know, the desperate battle for progress

For a while there it felt like we were really on to something with this ‘new era’ of work. But are we sliding back to the status quo?

WORDS: ALICE SNAPE

‘Release your job, release the time!’ Twoand-a-half years later and Beyoncé’s Break My Soul still soundtracks my commute when I just cannot. Most likely a Monday morning, as I stand on the cold, wet platform, damp seeping through my trainers into my socks. But Bey’s battle cry feels more like a dream than a reality. So I flick through my Spotify in search of the punk sounds of Lambrini Girls’ Company Culture. ‘Harassed in the workplace, my cold resting bitch face,’ blasts into my ears as I squeeze between the bodies in the overflowing carriage of the (delayed) 8.05. There was the Great Resignation of 2021, when millions quit their jobs in the space of weeks; then ‘quiet quitting’, ‘lazy girl jobs’ and even ‘bare minimum Mondays’, which encouraged us to…

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Cosmopolitan UK (Digital) - 1 Issue, April/May 2025

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