Everything You’re Doing about Work Stress Is Wrong

Work stress has become one of the most common challenges in modern life.  According to recent national reports, nearly seven in ten employees say work is a major source of stress, putting us right back where we were in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic. No matter where you work—at a desk in an office, from your kitchen table or bouncing between the two—the pressure to perform has never been higher.

Burnout has reached a six-year high despite the fact that most of us are doing everything we can think of to get rid of stress. We sign up for wellness webinars. We shuffle schedules. We tell ourselves we'll rest “as soon as things slow down.” But instead of helping, those strategies only add to the problem. The webinar we signed up for? We can’t attend because we got double-booked. The work we rearranged to make space for breathing room? Turns out it was the one thing our team was actually waiting on. And the plan to rest when things slow down? Somehow that moment never seems to come.

We end up stressed and exhausted from trying not to be so stressed and exhausted.

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