emotional labour

noun

1. work that requires good interpersonal skills

Example Sentences

The publisher also specified that it sought a White writer to write the foreword because asking a Black one would inflict “emotional labour” on that person.

From Washington Times

"I think we are but I think it's slow and there's a long way to go. I also think that the people who are shifting it are bearing all of the cost and emotional labour of doing it, and often that has a huge impact on their lives. So, I think the more that can be part of a shared, open, multiple-perspective conversation, the better."

From BBC

The position was born of what we might now describe as emotional labour, too.

From The Guardian

"It's a lot of emotional labour," she says.

From BBC

That we are the ones who have done most of the cleaning up, the cooking and the emotional labour.

From The Guardian