Shapeshifting not Code-Switching

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When you’re part of the minority at work, it can feel that you have to continually code-switch to get ahead. Code-switching may be a necessity to adapt to the majority way of working in order to be recognized and rewarded.

The term originally comes from a linguistics perspective of having to shift from one language to another depending on the contextual setting. At work, code-switching is defined as…