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Question: I was hired as an intern with the HR team at a public accounting agency when I was a senior in college. They offered me a full-time position as soon as I graduated two years ago, and I’ve been working there since. Both COVID and the racial unrest that we’ve experienced this year have greatly increased my workload. In addition to my normal role, I was asked to add protocols to our Health & Safety Procedures and serve on the new Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Steering Committee. I’ve been putting in a ton of extra hours on these projects and keep up with my regular workload, and I’m starting to feel serious fatigue. On top of that, my manager often volunteers me at the last minute for additional tasks, and, although I say no in my head, I can’t seem to tell her no. Do you have any advice for how to how to push back without getting passed by?

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Business in Focus: Ultranauts

Business In Focus

A closer look at companies executing leadership excellence
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Rajesh Anandan and his MIT roommate, Art Shectman, founded Ultranauts with one goal in mind: to prove that neurodiversity and autism could be a competitive advantage in business. “There is an incredible talent pool of adults on the autistic spectrum that has been overlooked for all the wrong reasons,” said 46-year-old Anandan in a recent interview with BBC. “People who haven’t had a fair shot to succeed at work, because of workplace and workflow and business practices that aren’t particularly effective for anyone but are especially damaging for anyone who is wired differently.”

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