In the summer of 2023, a marketing executive at a Fortune 500 company posted a seemingly harmless photo on her private Instagram story: a picture of her messy home office with the caption, “Why is my WFH day this chaotic?” A follower screenshot the post, shared it in a professional Slack group, and within 48 hours, her boss had called a meeting. The verdict? While she wasn’t fired, she was passed over for a promotion because the content was perceived as “unpolished and disorganized.”
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