A new excerpt published by Just Tech features the final book chapter from Trust Fall @sarahmosseri.bsky.social (@ucpress.bsky.social) on workplace relations in the NYC ride-sharing circuit. Read more: just-tech.ssrc.org/articles/orc...

"Open the book to page ninety-nine and read, and the quality of the whole will be revealed to you." --Ford Madox Ford I put Trust Fall through the Page 99 test at The Campaign for the American Readeer; read more about it here! page99test.blogspot.com/2025/12/sara...

Thrilled to have an excerpt of my book on the @ssrc.org Just Tech platform! just-tech.ssrc.org/articles/orc...

Did you miss my critical conversation on work & intimacy with @sarahljaffe.bsky.social? Catch the 5min highlight reel here! youtu.be/gZp-IMyKSQg?...

This is today! Register here: darden-virginia.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

"But a rule breaker might break some rules for you. If you feel underemployed, underappreciated and under-capitalized, you don’t have a lot to lose by betting on the crude guy with the bad jokes." I saw this at work too, as I show in my book @tressiemcphd.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/o...

Baby names aren’t just personal choices; they reflect culture, geography, gender, identity, and as i've been investigating, politics too. I’ve been analyzing 50 years of U.S. baby naming to see how they map onto political polarization in the U.S. Here’s what I found 🧵

I'm returning to Work Won't Love You Back territory for this conversation with @sarahmosseri.bsky.social -- online, December 9, free to all, timed for both US and Europe. darden-virginia.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

I’m thrilled to be co-hosting a digital event with Sarah Jaffe – journalist and author of Work Won’t Love You Back (among several other books). 🗓️ Join us on December 9th at 12pm (EST) for a candid conversation about work and intimacy. Register here: darden-virginia.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

🚨 IT'S LAUNCH DAY!!! 🚨Trust Fall is going out in the world today, and I genuinely hope folks find value in it. Order today: www.smosseri.com/trust-fall

My friend, Sarah Mosseri, wrote a book, Trust Fall, and It’s SO good. For anyone passionate about employee engagement, organizational culture, or what it really means to belong at work—this book is a must. Order yours at www.smosseri.com/trust-fall @sarahmosseri.bsky.social

ASA member Sarah Mosseri @sarahmosseri.bsky.social uncovers how the very bonds workers rely on to manage instability and insecurity often deepen their exposure to risk and exploitation. @ucpress.bsky.social

I am such a fangirl of the journalist, Anne Helen Petersen. She writes honestly and with clarity about really complex and nuanced issues. I'm still pinching myself about the fact that she endorsed my book. If you haven't gotten your copy yet, order here: www.smosseri.com/trust-fall

My latest Work Fails post draws on Jackson Lamb from Apple's Slow Horses to explain the unspoken labor of protective managers. Check it out and share with others!

This is such a heartbreaking story of the trust fall of modern work that I describe in my book. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/p...

My Op-Ed in the Atlanta Journal Constitution dropped this morning! Check it out! www.ajc.com/opinion/2025...

“I think I shall write books, and get rich and famous; that would suit me, so that is my favorite dream.” – Jo March I’m not rich or famous (yet 😉), but holding my book in print feels like the best measure of success!

So excited to have Caity Collins endorsement!!

My latest Work Fails post looks at how “fighting fires” became the new trust fall, and why crisis feels so meaningful even when it burns us out open.substack.com/pub/workfail...

The Red & Black at UGA did a profile on me and my book! As an alum, I'm super excited! www.redandblack.com/culture/sara...

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/27/o...

Meg-of-all-trades discusses the hope for sustainability after visiting New Zealand: "All I can tell you is that — on the other side of the planet...Climate change is a mutually agreed upon fact that helps push progress in sustainability forward." open.substack.com/pub/megoffsu...

I first met @allisonpugh.bsky.social on the page of her book, Longing and Belonging. I was instantly mesmerized by her writing and thinking. She offered a model of what I aspired to be as a sociologist. So grateful to have her support now as I publish my first book!

My latest Work Fails post breaks down some of the key concepts of the book, most notably "flash intimacy." Specifically, I show how the mechanisms of flash intimacy work together to trap talented people in unfulfilling roles. Check it out, share and subscribe: lnkd.in/eFk2RXVt

Learn about the University of Virginia’s Department of Sociology‬ & other sociology depts in the 2025 ASA Guide to Graduate Departments of Sociology. Now completely online and free for ASA members. Also available for a fee to nonmembers. https://bit.ly/ASAGradGuide‬‬‬

I first met @jaclynswong.sciences.social.ap.brid.gy at WFRN in 2018 when I was a grad student presenting. She smiled, nodded, and later chatted with me. It was a small moment of mentorship that meant so much. I’m so grateful she endorsed Trust Fall.

Findings from my recent ASA presentation in Chicago. Would love to hear feedback! open.substack.com/pub/workfail...

So fun to share my latest research at ASA in Chicago. Great conversations, long overdue reunions & fabulous new connections!

The latest from Laid Off tackles the dehumanizing nature of today's hiring processes:"So many hiring practices, even at mission-driven companies, end up being extractive or unnecessarily opaque." lnkd.in/evq-S7Bw

How conversations about AI are hiding more important political questions & serving as a scapegoat for long-brewing institutional problems www.thebignewsletter.com/p/why-are-we...

I love this description of tactile poetry: open.substack.com/pub/thestag/...

This recent post on Laid Off speaks to why we need more than relationships of trust at work: laid0ff.substack.com/p/laid-off-i...

My partner, sister-in-law & parents shoulder the bulk of care work for our aging relatives (each 25+hrs/week) but even my brother & I each spend 10+ hrs/week. That’s 120+ hrs weekly & we’re not exceptional-we have privileges many others don’t. All while the US keeps shrinking its care infrastructure

Can America Recapture Its Populist Soul? My forthcoming book, Trust Fall, aims to equip workers with a language to fight back against capital www.thebignewsletter.com/p/a-fourth-o...

I wrote Trust Fall for four audiences: workers, managers/coaches/L&D professionals; activists/policy advisors; academics. Learn more about how Trust Fall might speak to you in my latest Substack. lnkd.in/eSVYYyS8

My latests on why a baby bonus won't fix a broken economy & hurts men in the process open.substack.com/pub/workfail...

I finally finished Prophet Song last night after having to put it down post-election. So much of this book is haunting me, but this quote was just so beautiful and poignant, as both someone who has been an observer of "other" societal crises and as someone living in the midst of one in her society

Personal relationships can't fix structural problems.Yet American work culture expects interpersonal trust to solve what policies should address.New piece on why this 'workplace trust fallacy' is failing us all: open.substack.com/pub/workfail...

I have swag for everyone who pre-orders Trust Fall! If you pre-order (or already did), DM me your address & I'll send it your way :) And if you haven't pre-ordered yet, you can do that here: www.smosseri.com/trust-fall (see buttons at the bottom of the page)

I'm blown away every time this newsletter by @garrettbucks.bsky.social drops in my email! thewhitepages.net/p/you-havent...

This was more than venting. It was an act of moral repair. These testimonies pushed back vs the logic that says hardship is just part of the job. Instead, drivers named suffering as a structural failure. They refused to dignify dysfunction -my latest from Work Fails open.substack.com/pub/workfail...

Not only are they ignoring climate change—they’re trying to cover up the cost. Shutting down NOAA’s disaster tracking so we can’t see the BILLIONS it’s costing us? This ain’t solving the crisis—it’s hiding it.

So much to chew on in Ocean Vuong's NYT interview. I was struck by his description of what I call "communions of crisis" in my book when talking about the intimacy one develops with coworkers while working at a chain restaurant (see quote in comments). #TrustFall www.nytimes.com/2025/05/03/m...

Beautiful essay by Suleika Jaouad! This line resonated strongly: "Illness taught me how much we need one another, how we come into this world needing so much care, how we die needing so much care, how we get that from the people we love and who love us." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Saw this chalk art on my way to the coffeeshop this morning. I truly believe the revolution will be driven by workers who have been abused by institutions and told false promises of meritocracy for too long! Hope my book can be part of use to these workers! www.ucpress.edu/books/trust-...

My book is available for pre-order! Check it out! open.substack.com/pub/workfail...

I want to write a report fully detailing the conditions in CECOT via curatorial journalism—there is so much people don't know—but I'll tell you honestly that writing my last three reports on this subject has broken my spirit. My health has been affected. This is the worst topic I've ever written on.

We hear a lot about student debt, but not nearly enough about how policies are shaping the financial models of the colleges themselves. Capitalizing on College unpacks the unintended consequences of federal aid policy and what it means for equity and access.

Got a sneak preview of Josh Brown’s new book. It opens with this quote from a uni administrator: “Six months before I was hired, the university had taken on $140 million of debt.” As Josh argues, administrators like this hold insights that are eerily on point for the current moment in higher ed.

Some thoughts on workplace surveillance from my research