Was Dan Lyons a ‘Widget’ at HubSpot?

I was plugging along reading Dan Lyons’ Disrupted when I hit chapter 12 – “Employees as Widgets.”

Wow, that sounds so familiar, I thought. I emailed Dan. He said it was just a coincidence.

Well, so be it, but it certainly put me in a great position to weigh in on whether Lyons was, in fact, a “widget” during his time at HubSpot. The controversy is instructive for what all of us should expect from our employers and what they should be able to expect from us.

My latest Forbes column has the verdict on each of the 12 factors.