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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Graham Snowdon

Is it OK to be hypnotised to improve my work performance?

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'You are in a deep sleep … when you wake up, you will sell me a life insurance policy' Photograph: Getty

Work ethics is a fortnightly feature in Guardian Work where a reader submits a workplace dilemma and asks for your help. A selection of the best answers will appear in Saturday's paper. (And if you have a dilemma you'd like to share, anonymously, with our readers, please email us.)

This week's question

My boss wants to pay for our team to have cognitive hypnotherapy treatment to see if it improves our sales performance. Some colleagues think it could be fun but I'm worried about something going wrong and I'm not entirely sure about the ethics of it. What do readers think? Should I back out, or go along with it?

What are your thoughts?

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