Elana Feldman
@efeldman.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Management, Manning School of Business, UMass Lowell. Views my own.
Happy to share our new study (now online at Academy of Management Journal): Workers with chronic pain get trapped in a vicious cycle as they try to meet “ideal worker body” expectations. But some "break free" from this cycle by accepting a "sufficient worker body." journals.aom.org/doi/10.5465/...
Reckoning With the Ideal Worker Body: A Qualitative Study of Workers in Chronic Pain | Academy of Management Journal
Implicit in the ideal worker norm is the assumption of the ideal worker body, a body that is always ready and willing to meet work demands. Yet, bodies vary in their ability to meet this ideal. Throug...
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January 23, 2026 at 11:31 PM
Happy to share our new study (now online at Academy of Management Journal): Workers with chronic pain get trapped in a vicious cycle as they try to meet “ideal worker body” expectations. But some "break free" from this cycle by accepting a "sufficient worker body." journals.aom.org/doi/10.5465/...