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The Unnoticed Link Between Burnout and Your Email Inbox
In Episode 3 of The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna explore a specific overlooked driver of workplace exhaustion: the asynchronous overload of email and messaging. They unpack a 2024 Microsoft study showing that the average knowledge worker spends 57% of their week on communication apps, not deep work. Lucas draws on Cal Newport's 'slow productivity' framework and cites how a mid-sized marketing agency in Portland implemented a 'no-internal-email-before-10am' policy, cutting self-reported burnout scores by 34% over six months. Luna pushes back on…
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