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When fear of layoffs leads to unsustainable overwork

My company laid off half our department but expects the same output and I am working seventy hour weeks because I am terrified of being next.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Trauma responses to job insecurity create behaviors that actually increase burnout and decrease performance.

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