Microsoft has gone further and used workplace analytics to identify just how overloaded staff may be. A recent article in Harvard Business Review identified collaboration overload as a major cause for a drop in productivity since WFH. One recently identified cause of workplace stress is the pressure to collaborate. What caught my attention about the potential ineffectiveness of self-care remedies is not so much that they lack merit, but the perception they can be implemented with no negative consequences for anyone else. Invariably we hear about the need to “book quiet time,” “take control of your time commitments,” “make time for reflection/meditation,” “take Fridays off,” “say no to non-critical meetings,” “triage your emails”. Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and the movement to work from home (WFH), we have been inundated with articles and advice on dealing with workplace burnout. The cure for burnout is not self-care - that's the message from the new book by Emily Nagoski, Ph.D and Amelia Nagoski, DMA titled, " Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle."
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