On your dreary trudge to office on a Monday morning, a quick scan of your social media feed is enough to tell you, you are not alone. It's a Monday morning after all, and the world is feeling the blues. Pick up a health magazine, and everything from weight gain, neck pain, to insomnia is attributed to work-related stress. But does it have to be this way? Why are we so inured to unhappy workplaces that we have come to accept them as the norm? Or, as Samuel A Culbert asks in Good People, Bad Managers: How Work Culture Corrupts Good Intentions (Oxford University Press), 'How many jobs do you know of that you'd wish on someone you love?'