
Modern work culture often feels like a badge of honor for stress and burnout. Endless hours, constant connection, and the glorification of being “busy” have turned offices and virtual workspaces into breeding grounds for exhaustion and mental strain. Yet these harmful norms are so ingrained that employees and managers alike often accept them as necessary evils for success.
Psychologists, however, have been raising alarm bells for years about how deeply damaging some of these habits truly are.