Turn-off

That's the interesting thing about work stress: we don't really experience much of it at work. We're too busy. We experience it outside of work. Most of us are experiencing time to time stress and fatigue because we have the feeling that we cannot achieve all we should achieve at work. As previously said, this fatigue is not coming from the work itself but from the time we use to stress about what we must do outside our working time. It significantly disrupts our ability to recover and recharge in the off-hours.

I have found a solution to this issue years ago and this solution is one word: decision; ruminations are involuntary so I must decide when I connect to work during my free time and when I turn off to recover. It does not always work, during a COVID peak for example, but it is the main guardrails to preserve myself ruminating about work. With the digital and working from home growth, it is becoming vital to decide when to turn off or to turn on our connection to work outside working hours.

Guy Winch is proposing us an interesting Ted Talks on this topic. Using his personal life he gives his recipe to switch off and to recover. This practice is a way to keep our pleasure and engagement at work intact. Enjoy this talk and let me know your comment:

For example, I have a question in mind about the millennials’ new behaviors, do you think it is true that they don’t really need to switch off and can work in a totally connected world, blending work and personal time without damaging their energy level? Please let me know.