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Burnout at work? The buck stops with you

Having good mental health and work-life balance will remain a pipe dream if we don’t treat them as priorities.

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With no colleagues watching them work, some people felt they had to push themselves harder to be deserving of their wages.

Asking bosses to “ease up” is not realistic. But that does not mean that we have to live with anxiety at the workplace.

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Paul Heng

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You want to do well at your job.

You don’t want your boss to think you’re slacking.

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