A quick scroll on TikTok will highlight a plethora of advice for how to look busy in the office; walking fast with a laptop stuffed under your armpit and typing audaciously loud are popular picks. But ...
“People would look really busy when they were actually just getting lunch, or would wear their AirPods all day so it looked like they were in meetings,” she explained. “A lot of people would ...
One of the key reasons for “task masking” is resistance to rigid corporate norms and office presence requirements.