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In 'Work Pray Code,' author Carolyn Chen reflects on what happens when we worship work

Many Silicon Valley companies want their software engineers to live for their jobs. And they offer them everything from meals to dry cleaning to spiritual coaches. But is the office really the place to find a life’s worth of fulfilment?
Technology workers stand in a group near signage for Google Inc at the Googleplex, the Silicon Valley headquarters of search engine and technology company Google Inc, Mountain View, California, April 7, 2017. (Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images).

Sociologist Carolyn Chen studied Silicon Valley and discovered that tech firm culture had become a kind of religion.

“The workplace was the last meaningful institution standing,” she

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