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"undermine your work" is a correct and commonly used phrase in written English
It means to weaken or sabotage someone's efforts or progress. Example: The constant criticism from her boss began to undermine her work ethic and confidence.
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And if you have something funny, or human, to tell, that won't undermine your work.
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So what did the phrase mean to Jobs? "By the time he was espousing it, he was quite wealthy and powerful and I think aware of the innovator's dilemma where you can put yourself out of business by not continuing to undermine your own work," says Brand. "And 'stay hungry, stay foolish' was possibly a formula for him to keep coming up with the next thing.
Disregard any hate speech and attempt to undermine your belief in the good works that you are doing.
Resist giving into work cultures that undermine your productivity.
Anonymous, Texas It would be dishonorable to become the office mole, undermining your boss's work, slipping his private papers into your boot, making furtive phone calls to his rivals: even in politics, deceit and treachery are considered unethical if done in-house.
To deliberately, albeit passively, undermine the work you agreed to do is to tell your employer a kind of lie.
They are anxious not to undermine its work.
Such a meeting might undermine the work of his negotiators, he said.
Any strike action undertaken would significantly undermine the work of all members of the ENO family".
Mr Vercoutre insists that he is the victim of "lies" concocted to undermine his work as a union leader.
They believe that programs such as unemployment compensation and food stamps subsidize laziness and undermine the work ethic.
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