If you have ever worked in a corporate of almost any size, HR has probably sent you a survey built around a single question: How likely are you to recommend our company to others? And if you are like most people, you scratched your head and wondered why this even matters, and why they cannot just leave you alone to do your #job. 2026 has been a year of massive change, and we are only halfway through. Despite all the layoffs, restructures and reorganisations, your company is s

A client came back from two weeks in Greece and told me the calm lasted until Wednesday. By her second week back, she said, it was as though she had never left. All the work stress, rumination, anxiety, sleeplessness - it all came back totally unchanged. Holidays in Greece is always a good idea (trust me). But, are holidays even enough anymore? Or, do we all collectively need to embrace the concept of micro-retirement instead? Admittedly, the idea is rather seductive. At leas

Are your friends at work helping you with your burnout, or are they actually making it worse? If you ever needed proof on how much we value relationships at #work, take a look at these numbers: 57% of employees would accept a job paying 10% below market just to work with a close friend, and 87% say that friendships are crucial for staying with the company (KPMG). The Conservation of Resources theory offers a solid explanation backing these statistics. Good friendships provide

This year I stopped managing people. For the first time in a very long time, there was no team, no 9AM stand-ups, no weekly 1:1s, no banter with people on the same boat. What replaced it was managing Claude: writing detailed prompts, checking every output, correcting all the little details. At some point last week I realized that I was working in a way that would terrify me if Claude was a real person I was supposed to lead. You see, for most of my career, my approach to #lea

Recognition is now cited as a driver of #burnout at roughly twice the rate it was a year ago. The organisational response has been MORE: more structured Comp&Ben programs, more public shoutouts on Slack, more AI-generated appreciation messages. But more is NOT better, and it's definitely not addressing the deeper issue. Three forms of recognition, three kinds of protection Research identifies 3 distinct forms of #recognition, each protective against a different dimension of b