"I've been hired on a very temporary basis to speak on behalf of the 300-plus employees at Astronomer," Paltrow says in the clip, which the company posted across social media.

In her essay about the recent exposure of an affair on a Coldplay concert’s kiss cam, Ms. Schulman exhibits a common and troubling misunderstanding of the distinction between shame and humiliation.

In a new promotional video published to the company’s LinkedIn account Friday, the Oscar-winning actress introduces herself as having been “hired on a very temporary basis to speak on behalf of the 3...