October 2023

It’s the usual busy Monday at Planet Tech. As employees chart their plan of action for the week, let’s zoom into the lives of three.  Dahlia returns to the office after another chaotic weekend at home. She recently had to take out a loan to cover some financial debt and is working overtime to pay

“I feel I cannot concentrate on my work and need twice the amount of time and energy to finish tasks than I used to before.” – T.F. (employee) “I am unable to take decisions at work as I feel overwhelmed with a lot of tasks and looming deadlines, and I keep postponing the decision-making. I

“The future is hybrid.” Adam Grant tweeted as he described an experimental study with 1600 people for six months where they were randomly assigned to either the hybrid work group (which had two days of remote work in a week) or a full on-site group with no remote work. Attrition rates in the hybrid group

Last year McKinsey reported that “Employee burnout is ubiquitous, alarming—and still underreported.” Nearly 50% of the respondents from both corporate and government set-ups reported burnout symptoms in this study and it was speculated that this number would be higher since the most burned-out employees would have already left their workplace. In a McKinsey report aptly