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When teams can't actually stop working despite agreeing to Sabbath boundaries

My startup team is completely burned out and I suggested we try not working Sundays but everyone just works from home instead of the office and pretends they're not working while still being on Slack all day.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Collective exhaustion and individual ambition create a tragedy of the commons around rest.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Sabbath — the weekly practice of stopping?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.