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When your team can't establish boundaries despite wanting them

My team keeps saying we need better work-life boundaries but then someone always responds to the late-night Slack message and we're all afraid if we don't respond we'll look uncommitted compared to everyone else.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The group creates the very pressure they wish to escape, each person reinforcing the cycle while hoping others will break it first.

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