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The absurd workplace: How absurdity is hypernormalized in contemporary society and organizations

Introduction

A psychiatrist who has a 30-minute appointment with a patient, needs another 20-25 minutes to process all paperwork attached to the meeting (Spaans, 2017). There is now so much bureaucracy involved in health care provision, that the time that health care providers spend on their actual jobs is substantially reduced, seriously impeding the quality of care because of the very procedures meant to ensure quality of care.

Escaping Wonderland

Fact fiction

In Lewis Caroll’s celebrated 1871 novel, Through the looking-glass (TLG), which is the sequel to his beloved Alice’s adventures in Wonderland (AIW) from 1865, the protagonist Alice encounters the so-called

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