Thank you so much to Nine to Thrive HR host (and Gild Collective facilitator!) Cindi Koetzle for having us on the HCI podcast to kick off the new year. Together we deep dive into ways to address both the stress and the stressors in your personal and professional lives in order to hit reset on the far-reaching effects of burnout. We talk data, workplace boundaries and get a little personal about this time of year when everyone is either making resolutions, already breaking resolutions, or feeling resentful toward the idea that they have time for resolutions. If you’re in that third category, you’ve probably started the new year in a state of burnout—and maybe it isn’t new.
We’ve been talking about burnout for a while, and this podcast is a great reminder of some of the work we can do to dig ourselves out of burnout—using the new year not as a measuring stick for success but an opportunity to reset and create new boundaries.
After you’ve listened, check out some of our other posts on burnout for even more information. And of course, reach out if you need support or think your organization could benefit from a Navigating Burnout workshop.
“As companies embrace flexibility, they also need to set clear boundaries”
The 2021 Women in the Workplace report summarizes this key recommendation so clearly. Pre-pandemic, boundaries were important, but to an extent some of them were ‘built in’ to our daily lives—the commute to the office, closing up the computer at the end of the workday, a peek at email on your phone but a response saved for tomorrow.
With all of the changes COVID-19 has brought, burnout is one that we have talked about extensively in the past two years. As we face yet another period of transition (back to the office, no wait—back to remote) it is a critical time to revisit the boundaries that organizations can set to create a sustainable flexible workforce that can readily adapt to the seemingly endless change and uncertainty.