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When teams can't enforce Sabbath boundaries because of unspoken power dynamics

Our department agreed to email-free Sundays but our director keeps sending 'non-urgent' messages that everyone responds to anyway because we're all afraid to be the one who doesn't, and no one will call it out directly.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Hierarchy corrupts collective rest when authority figures cannot model restraint.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

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

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