Burnout

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The problem is as old as work itself: you’re working as part of a team and seem to be doing twice as much - or more - as your colleagues, yet no one seems to notice. It feels as though you’re carrying the weight of entire projects on your back and no one appears aware you’re a key decision maker and have done most of the heavy lifting, and you feel devalued. These and various other manifestations of work overload are difficult enough to resolve when you’re showing up to work in a single physical location with your management present.

The rapidly increasing prevalence of distributed workforces - you might be working from home or mostly on the road - can make demonstrating to those overseeing you the extent of your workload incredibly hard, and often even harder to resolve.

The result is burnout, and the impact of ‘always on’ work patterns in organizations of all sizes can ultimately have a significant negative effect on results.