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The Real Cost of Being Always Available
Lucas and Luna explore the hidden cost of constant availability at work — how responding to messages at all hours rewires your brain and undermines your boundaries. They dig into a 2025 study from the University of Surrey showing that employees who felt pressure to reply within 15 minutes reported 23 percent higher emotional exhaustion. Lucas shares a simple structural fix: a personal 'response time budget' that limits daily reply windows. Luna pushes back on whether setting expectations with managers is realistic. They land on a practical middle ground — asynchronous updates that…
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