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Part TwoRelationship Truth 1: The Employee Pyramid

Figure depicting the Employee Pyramid. Starting from the base, the pyramid is classified into money, recognition, and meaning.

Work is about daily meaning as well as daily bread; for recognition as well as cash; in short, for a sort of life rather than a Monday-through-Friday sort of dying.…We have a right to ask of work that it include meaning, recognition, astonishment and life.

Studs Terkel, Working¹

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