(Bloomberg) – Jean Prince was 50 when she started working for a U.K. tech company near Cambridge as a technical author, writing software documentation. "I felt extremely lucky," she said.

But she wasn't happy.

"The workplace has become more impersonal and tougher," she said. "Everyone is performance-managed to death." She felt underappreciated and unloved.

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