The most important book by the most-read German management author. People primarily experience the economy in the workplace. How they are treated in their companies on a daily basis is something they carry with them to their families and friends. Thus, what happens to us at work has direct societal implications - and these can be enormous. However, as Germany's most successful economic thinker Reinhard K. Sprenger shows, there is often a lack of decency in companies - decency understood as restraint and distance. Instead, we experience an excess of intrusiveness, such as in the form of surveys, misunderstood caring, and the demand for identification.