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How teams sabotage their own digital boundaries

My work team keeps talking about needing boundaries around Slack and email but every time someone tries to disconnect others panic and start calling them directly and we end up more anxious than before.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The group's anxiety about disconnection overrides individual attempts at healthy limits, creating a cycle where everyone stays trapped in always-on culture.

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“Where Are You with Digital detox and its limits?”

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