Overwork – The Hidden Business Disease

Overwork – The Hidden Business Disease

Recently I have commentated on mental health and burnout in relation to business-owners and their teams.

Overwork is where an employee works beyond their capacity. This may be voluntarily, implicitly (through cultural expectations) or explicitly (requested). Overwork blurs the line between working hours and private hours.

Overwork typically presents as significantly extended working hours over a working week. This can include bleeding into day and night as well as 7-day working weeks. Symptoms of employees suffering overwork can be exhaustion, stress, depression, anxiety, sleep disorders, poor diet, extreme behaviour, infidelity, drug and alcohol abuse. Overall, overwork leads to a loss of self, personal relationships, hobbies and interests.

In extreme cases, overwork has led to death as strung-out workers can’t keep pace with the expectations of perceived work deliverables.

In this blog, I explore the issue of overwork which has presented itself in a new form within post-Covid virtual and hybrid workplaces.

The Power of Retreats & Slow Productivity

The Power of Retreats & Slow Productivity

Some of you may know I am a big fan of taking regular retreats to review my life on both a personal and business level. These are generally solo trips for a night or two to an idyllic seaside or bush environment.

I also adopt slow productivity in my work which focuses on economically expending energy in a mindful and purposeful manner. It’s about seeing life as a series of short sprints rather than one long marathon.

In this blog, I share some valuable insights on the power of retreats and adopting slow productivity into you game plan.

The Big Challenges in 2023

The Big Challenges in 2023

We face significant global and domestic issues in this post-pandemic business landscape.

Please understand me highlighting these issues is not intended to be pessimistic or negative. I simply prefer to be realistic in surveying the horizon to observe what is coming at us, before it’s too late.

In this blog, I identify the big challenges I see facing business owners and their teams in the year ahead.