Elizabeth Burns Dyer

Elizabeth Burns Dyer is a cultural historian and psychotherapist. Her writing examines care, labor, and the transfer of public responsibility onto families and bodies. She holds a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania and lives in Berkeley, California.

Employees demostrate sleeping “pods” in a corporate office.

The Nap Room Didn’t Love Me Back The Nap Room Didn’t Love Me Back

I left academia for a tech job that offered me the promise of stability. What happens when corporate employers become our most reliable caregivers?

Mar 28, 2026 / Elizabeth Burns Dyer

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