Our Workplace Absurdities Research

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We are conducting research labs focused on identifying early signals of strain in judgment, orientation, and decision-making.

Satirical Sensemaking Labs are designed to:

• observe early signals of orientation loss
• surface socially compressed language
• examine how people test shared understanding under pressure

They are not training sessions, audits, or interventions.

These labs bring together field observations from across various industries, sectors and countries as satire and humour phrases and style differs culturally. 

The purpose is to surface patterns before breakdowns become visible.

This research examines how judgment, coordination, and orientation shift across individual, team, and organizational levels under sustained pressure.

Individual
What people start doing, saying, or suppressing just to stay oriented.

Team
How coordination, decision‑making, and trust quietly distort over time.

Organization

How structures, incentives, and rhythms reinforce behavior they never intended to create. Nothing here is framed as failure. Everything here is framed as response.

Research outputs and sensemaking artifacts emerging from these inquiries include:

• Briefs
  Short, cinematic observations of lived workplace experience.
• Deep Dives
  Pattern analysis connecting repeated behaviors to specific Workplace Absurdities.
• Field Notes & Satirical Signals
  Humor, irony, and exaggeration used as early‑warning indicators, not entertainment.
• The Workplace Absurdities Report
  This investigation directly informs the report.