Workplace Wellbeing: Surviving and thriving as an introvert at work

Research shows that extroverts tend to enjoy more success in the workplace, but it means that businesses miss out on the skills and insights of introverts. Here are some ways to get noticed at work if you're an introvert...

The modern workplace, with its noisy open-plan offices and group brainstorming sessions, seems designed with extroverts in mind. Picture: iStock

Katy Lumsden used to think there was something wrong with her. The 51-year-old is now the head of HR at the National Library of Ireland (nli.ie), but in her early 20s, when she was new to the world of work, she was asked to complete the Myers-Briggs Personality Test.

“That test helped me understand that I was an introvert and what introversion meant,” she says.