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The Quiet Cost of Answering Emails After Hours
In this episode of The Burnout Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore how after-hours emailing quietly rewires your relationship with your evenings and your sense of professional obligation. They dig into the 'always-on' norm, the psychological toll of anticipatory stress, and what the data says about recovery time. Using the example of a mid-career manager who started setting a hard cutoff at 7 p.m., they break down why the compulsion to check one more message is rarely about urgency and almost always about anxiety. They also touch on the role of organizational culture — how leaders can…
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