Is your work ethos toxic? Learn six concrete actions you can take to regain balance and break the cycle of toxic productivity for good.

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Forty percent of workers think burnout is an inevitable part of success. Toxic productivity is a drive to be productive at all times, not just at work, but in all areas of life. In the long run, this can lead to burnout, depression, and other physical and mental health consequences.

Toxic Productivity is No Good—Here’s How to Stop it [2023] • Asana

6 ways to break the cycle of toxic productivity

I agree. Hope you guys start implementing the suggestion,
Asana. Please share th eprogress after 3 months, love to share it with my team.

This is something that one can see the signs of with <a href="http://notion.so" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">notion.so</a> templates that one uses to record one’s media consumption habits (who would ever care about recording their thoughts about episodes of Downton Abbey for the love of God?). For too long, LinkedIn gurus have been creating this radioactively toxic idea of productivity which is super unhealthy and inevitably leads to train wrecks, why anyone falls for this is beyond me.
Nothing goes with you when you die but the experiences you had, not the money, not the house you got at only 25 but spend less than 6 hours at per day, not the fancy car you park at BART that gets keyed by the homeless dude in a bad mood, not the job you endure but hate for 12 hours a day. You might as well take the best possible experiences with you, even if you are dirt poor because at least you won’t be only taking experiences of being miserable. Life is too short for constant misery.