Employees Are Burning Out — and the Culprit Isn’t What You Think

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Imagine you’re headed home from work, unwinding by listening to your favorite podcast. Your phone chimes with an email from your boss. They want you to revamp a slide deck. Rather than resting, you spend the evening working and come into work the next day fried.

All of us have encountered this kind of microstress — a term I coined with my co-author, Karen Dillon, in our recent book “The Microstress Effect.” Microstressors are small but stressful moments that add up to harm our health, work performance and personal lives. Data suggests that these small negative interactions are up to five

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