Public Secrets as a Phenomenon in Organizational Communication

There seem to be two realms in our waking time: work and life. However work is often juxtaposed against life which is found in anything but work. Organizational work has become nothing more than the necessary evil the means for a livelihood. Work has ubiquitously become the enemy of life. What culprit has dichotomized work and life? Public secrets! </p><p>Empirically based this book explores and testifies why the phenomenon of public secrets may have transformed our organizational life into a big lie to which we are all forced to subscribe--against private consciousness. Public secrets represent the communication phenomenon where public knowledge though tacitly acknowledged and widely espoused is never incorporated into organizational actions and daily routines. As a consequence employees are not living their organizational life with their heads and hearts but with our heels. Employment with heels is the biggest un-economics against time--it costs wastes and debilitates; it makes work the arch-enemy of life.