Today’s new deal at work reprises work schemes of the late 1800’s, plus a few meaningless perks.   Dan Lyons’ account of his time at the software company HubSpot describes a workplace in which employees are disposable, “treated as if they are widgets to be used up and discarded.” And HubSpot is scarcely unique: The description of Amazon’s work environment is just one of many similar cases. An increasing number of companies offer snacks, foosball, and futuristic jargon to keep employees’ minds off their long hours and omnipresent economic insecurity.   Whether that works, and for how long, is an open question.   Of course, in the new economy ever fewer companies hire people like Lyons as employees in […]