Sarah Mosseri
@sarahmosseri.bsky.social
Working independently to bring critical workplace research into public conversation— Pre-order Trust Fall now: https://www.smosseri.com/trust-fall
I’m thrilled to be co-hosting a digital event with Sarah Jaffe – journalist and author of Work Won’t Love You Back (among several other books).
🗓️ Join us on December 9th at 12pm (EST) for a candid conversation about work and intimacy.
Register here: darden-virginia.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
🗓️ Join us on December 9th at 12pm (EST) for a candid conversation about work and intimacy.
Register here: darden-virginia.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
November 13, 2025 at 3:32 PM
I’m thrilled to be co-hosting a digital event with Sarah Jaffe – journalist and author of Work Won’t Love You Back (among several other books).
🗓️ Join us on December 9th at 12pm (EST) for a candid conversation about work and intimacy.
Register here: darden-virginia.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
🗓️ Join us on December 9th at 12pm (EST) for a candid conversation about work and intimacy.
Register here: darden-virginia.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
🚨 IT'S LAUNCH DAY!!! 🚨Trust Fall is going out in the world today, and I genuinely hope folks find value in it.
Order today: www.smosseri.com/trust-fall
Order today: www.smosseri.com/trust-fall
November 11, 2025 at 11:45 AM
🚨 IT'S LAUNCH DAY!!! 🚨Trust Fall is going out in the world today, and I genuinely hope folks find value in it.
Order today: www.smosseri.com/trust-fall
Order today: www.smosseri.com/trust-fall
Reposted by Sarah Mosseri
My friend, Sarah Mosseri, wrote a book, Trust Fall, and It’s SO good. For anyone passionate about employee engagement, organizational culture, or what it really means to belong at work—this book is a must. Order yours at www.smosseri.com/trust-fall
@sarahmosseri.bsky.social
@sarahmosseri.bsky.social
Trust Fall | Sarah Mosseri
Trust Fall by sociologist Sarah Mosseri explores how workplace trust shapes modern labor markets, revealing how relationships can both sustain and exploit workers. Based on immersive research across i...
www.smosseri.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:11 PM
My friend, Sarah Mosseri, wrote a book, Trust Fall, and It’s SO good. For anyone passionate about employee engagement, organizational culture, or what it really means to belong at work—this book is a must. Order yours at www.smosseri.com/trust-fall
@sarahmosseri.bsky.social
@sarahmosseri.bsky.social
Reposted by Sarah Mosseri
ASA member Sarah Mosseri @sarahmosseri.bsky.social uncovers how the very bonds workers rely on to manage instability and insecurity often deepen their exposure to risk and exploitation. @ucpress.bsky.social
Trust Fall by Sarah Mosseri - Paper
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November 10, 2025 at 5:46 PM
ASA member Sarah Mosseri @sarahmosseri.bsky.social uncovers how the very bonds workers rely on to manage instability and insecurity often deepen their exposure to risk and exploitation. @ucpress.bsky.social
I am such a fangirl of the journalist, Anne Helen Petersen. She writes honestly and with clarity about really complex and nuanced issues. I'm still pinching myself about the fact that she endorsed my book.
If you haven't gotten your copy yet, order here: www.smosseri.com/trust-fall
If you haven't gotten your copy yet, order here: www.smosseri.com/trust-fall
November 6, 2025 at 12:43 PM
I am such a fangirl of the journalist, Anne Helen Petersen. She writes honestly and with clarity about really complex and nuanced issues. I'm still pinching myself about the fact that she endorsed my book.
If you haven't gotten your copy yet, order here: www.smosseri.com/trust-fall
If you haven't gotten your copy yet, order here: www.smosseri.com/trust-fall
My latest Work Fails post draws on Jackson Lamb from Apple's Slow Horses to explain the unspoken labor of protective managers. Check it out and share with others!
Buffering: The Unspoken Labor of Protective Managers
Every organization relies on buffers: the managers who absorb chaos, protect their teams, and keep the gears turning. Their care holds things together, but also keeps broken systems intact.
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November 4, 2025 at 12:07 PM
My latest Work Fails post draws on Jackson Lamb from Apple's Slow Horses to explain the unspoken labor of protective managers. Check it out and share with others!
This is such a heartbreaking story of the trust fall of modern work that I describe in my book.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/p...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/p...
The Hidden Victims of America’s Wildfires
www.nytimes.com
October 28, 2025 at 11:36 AM
This is such a heartbreaking story of the trust fall of modern work that I describe in my book.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/p...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/p...
My Op-Ed in the Atlanta Journal Constitution dropped this morning! Check it out! www.ajc.com/opinion/2025...
Trust is listed as a core value in workplaces, but it can often be weaponized
Trust and loyalty are valued by employers, but these values can be used as weapons of control, as shown in the cases of the CDC's Susan Monarez and the FBI's James Comey.
www.ajc.com
October 23, 2025 at 1:43 PM
My Op-Ed in the Atlanta Journal Constitution dropped this morning! Check it out! www.ajc.com/opinion/2025...
“I think I shall write books, and get rich and famous; that would suit me, so that is my favorite dream.” – Jo March
I’m not rich or famous (yet 😉), but holding my book in print feels like the best measure of success!
I’m not rich or famous (yet 😉), but holding my book in print feels like the best measure of success!
October 20, 2025 at 11:29 AM
“I think I shall write books, and get rich and famous; that would suit me, so that is my favorite dream.” – Jo March
I’m not rich or famous (yet 😉), but holding my book in print feels like the best measure of success!
I’m not rich or famous (yet 😉), but holding my book in print feels like the best measure of success!
So excited to have Caity Collins endorsement!!
October 17, 2025 at 12:54 PM
So excited to have Caity Collins endorsement!!
My latest Work Fails post looks at how “fighting fires” became the new trust fall, and why crisis feels so meaningful even when it burns us out
open.substack.com/pub/workfail...
open.substack.com/pub/workfail...
Communions of Crisis: How “Fighting Fires” at Work Has Become the New Trust Fall
Workplace crises don’t just test our strength. They sustain the very systems that exploit it, turning teamwork into dependency, chaos into culture, and suffering into proof of loyalty.
open.substack.com
October 14, 2025 at 12:21 PM
My latest Work Fails post looks at how “fighting fires” became the new trust fall, and why crisis feels so meaningful even when it burns us out
open.substack.com/pub/workfail...
open.substack.com/pub/workfail...
The Red & Black at UGA did a profile on me and my book! As an alum, I'm super excited! www.redandblack.com/culture/sara...
Sarah Mosseri’s ‘Trust Fall: How Workplace Relationships Fail Us’ investigates American work culture
Sociologist Sarah Mosseri is challenging a familiar idea in American work culture: the notion of the “workplace family.”
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October 9, 2025 at 7:53 PM
The Red & Black at UGA did a profile on me and my book! As an alum, I'm super excited! www.redandblack.com/culture/sara...
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/27/o...
Opinion | How Moms Got Caught in Trump’s Cross Hairs
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September 27, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/27/o...
Meg-of-all-trades discusses the hope for sustainability after visiting New Zealand: "All I can tell you is that — on the other side of the planet...Climate change is a mutually agreed upon fact that helps push progress in sustainability forward." open.substack.com/pub/megoffsu...
Land of the Long White Cloud
How a visit to New Zealand gave me hope in the face of the climate crisis
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September 26, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Meg-of-all-trades discusses the hope for sustainability after visiting New Zealand: "All I can tell you is that — on the other side of the planet...Climate change is a mutually agreed upon fact that helps push progress in sustainability forward." open.substack.com/pub/megoffsu...
I first met @allisonpugh.bsky.social on the page of her book, Longing and Belonging. I was instantly mesmerized by her writing and thinking. She offered a model of what I aspired to be as a sociologist.
So grateful to have her support now as I publish my first book!
So grateful to have her support now as I publish my first book!
September 25, 2025 at 2:09 PM
I first met @allisonpugh.bsky.social on the page of her book, Longing and Belonging. I was instantly mesmerized by her writing and thinking. She offered a model of what I aspired to be as a sociologist.
So grateful to have her support now as I publish my first book!
So grateful to have her support now as I publish my first book!
My latest Work Fails post breaks down some of the key concepts of the book, most notably "flash intimacy." Specifically, I show how the mechanisms of flash intimacy work together to trap talented people in unfulfilling roles.
Check it out, share and subscribe: lnkd.in/eFk2RXVt
Check it out, share and subscribe: lnkd.in/eFk2RXVt
September 17, 2025 at 12:00 PM
My latest Work Fails post breaks down some of the key concepts of the book, most notably "flash intimacy." Specifically, I show how the mechanisms of flash intimacy work together to trap talented people in unfulfilling roles.
Check it out, share and subscribe: lnkd.in/eFk2RXVt
Check it out, share and subscribe: lnkd.in/eFk2RXVt
Reposted by Sarah Mosseri
Learn about the University of Virginia’s Department of Sociology & other sociology depts in the 2025 ASA Guide to Graduate Departments of Sociology. Now completely online and free for ASA members. Also available for a fee to nonmembers. https://bit.ly/ASAGradGuide
September 6, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Learn about the University of Virginia’s Department of Sociology & other sociology depts in the 2025 ASA Guide to Graduate Departments of Sociology. Now completely online and free for ASA members. Also available for a fee to nonmembers. https://bit.ly/ASAGradGuide
I first met @jaclynswong.sciences.social.ap.brid.gy at WFRN in 2018 when I was a grad student presenting. She smiled, nodded, and later chatted with me. It was a small moment of mentorship that meant so much. I’m so grateful she endorsed Trust Fall.
September 4, 2025 at 10:49 AM
I first met @jaclynswong.sciences.social.ap.brid.gy at WFRN in 2018 when I was a grad student presenting. She smiled, nodded, and later chatted with me. It was a small moment of mentorship that meant so much. I’m so grateful she endorsed Trust Fall.
Findings from my recent ASA presentation in Chicago. Would love to hear feedback! open.substack.com/pub/workfail...
“We Don’t All Have the Same 24 Hours”: How Temporal Privilege Keeps Inequality Hidden
There’s much talk of time divides, but inequality isn’t just about hours on the clock. It’s about the friction in our days.
open.substack.com
September 2, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Findings from my recent ASA presentation in Chicago. Would love to hear feedback! open.substack.com/pub/workfail...
So fun to share my latest research at ASA in Chicago. Great conversations, long overdue reunions & fabulous new connections!
August 14, 2025 at 9:04 PM
So fun to share my latest research at ASA in Chicago. Great conversations, long overdue reunions & fabulous new connections!
The latest from Laid Off tackles the dehumanizing nature of today's hiring processes:"So many hiring practices, even at mission-driven companies, end up being extractive or unnecessarily opaque."
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July 28, 2025 at 2:13 PM
The latest from Laid Off tackles the dehumanizing nature of today's hiring processes:"So many hiring practices, even at mission-driven companies, end up being extractive or unnecessarily opaque."
lnkd.in/evq-S7Bw
lnkd.in/evq-S7Bw
How conversations about AI are hiding more important political questions & serving as a scapegoat for long-brewing institutional problems www.thebignewsletter.com/p/why-are-we...
Why Are We Pretending AI Is Going to Take All the Jobs?
Yes, generative AI is transformational. Will it eliminate most entry-level jobs? That depends. Will we continue to demand excessive returns on capital? If so, then we're in trouble.
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July 24, 2025 at 1:32 PM
How conversations about AI are hiding more important political questions & serving as a scapegoat for long-brewing institutional problems www.thebignewsletter.com/p/why-are-we...
I love this description of tactile poetry: open.substack.com/pub/thestag/...
what even is tactile poetry?
and how you can become a part of The Stag Project this week!
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July 24, 2025 at 1:07 PM
I love this description of tactile poetry: open.substack.com/pub/thestag/...
This recent post on Laid Off speaks to why we need more than relationships of trust at work: laid0ff.substack.com/p/laid-off-i...
Laid Off: In a Cab to the Cancer Hospital
"I know there are very few layoff-free fields, but media? What a shitshow."
laid0ff.substack.com
July 10, 2025 at 2:49 PM
This recent post on Laid Off speaks to why we need more than relationships of trust at work: laid0ff.substack.com/p/laid-off-i...
My partner, sister-in-law & parents shoulder the bulk of care work for our aging relatives (each 25+hrs/week) but even my brother & I each spend 10+ hrs/week. That’s 120+ hrs weekly & we’re not exceptional-we have privileges many others don’t. All while the US keeps shrinking its care infrastructure
July 5, 2025 at 4:11 PM
My partner, sister-in-law & parents shoulder the bulk of care work for our aging relatives (each 25+hrs/week) but even my brother & I each spend 10+ hrs/week. That’s 120+ hrs weekly & we’re not exceptional-we have privileges many others don’t. All while the US keeps shrinking its care infrastructure