Guy Winch

And that's actually ironic because the awareness of work-life balance and how damaging stress is and all the efforts that have been made to reduce it have seen the opposite result.

It keeps going up.

There's something about the current workplace which is very, very pressured.

It is absolutely getting worse and very, very much so.

70% of workers report that work stress is impacting their physical health.

67% of workers report symptoms of burnout.

Stress and burnout have been peaking.

over the past few years.

And that's actually ironic because the awareness of work-life balance and how damaging stress is and all the efforts that have been made by companies to reduce it have seen the opposite result.

It keeps going up.

There's something about the current workplace

which is very very pressured it's the hustle culture it's the grind culture and it's just making us mismanage the stress and we make it worse inadvertently in ways that we're not aware but we're making it worse for ourselves my sense would be that because since covid

You might think.

But first of all, what that did is it erased the boundaries between how we think about home.

We used to think about home as our sanctuary.

That's where we go after work.

But because that's where we have worked or do work, that boundary gets really fuzzy.

We get a lot of emails.

After work, some of the statistics are that some people in managerial and higher positions do eight hours of emails.

That's unpaid work per week.