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Almost half, 44%, of workers report feeling burned out, according to a 2024 survey by the Society for Human Resource Management. One way to keep your job from draining you is to set boundaries around who you interact with and what tasks you take on. Here are three phrases that can help you set healthy boundaries at work and come off as a team player. You can say: "Yes and I just need to get to these other tasks. If you are on a deadline or have an overwhelming amount of work to do, these meetings can be extra frustrating.
Persons: Brandon Smith, I've, Robert I, Sutton Organizations: Society for Human Resource Management, CNBC, Stanford University
The meeting that could have been an email is not going away. Even after a pandemic challenged workplace norms, it seems like some corporations are determined to deliver their employees back into a world of lengthy all-hands or workshops. Robert I. Sutton, an organizational psychologist and professor at Stanford University, has a counterintuitive solution if you find yourself stuck in a pointless meeting: just leave. He does this, he says, at least once a week: "I'm a big believer in walking out of things." Sutton is also the co-author of the upcoming book "The Friction Project: How Smart Leaders Make the Right Things Easier and the Wrong Things Harder."
Women Prefer Other Women as Mentors—Sometimes
  + stars: | 2022-09-25 | by ( Lisa Ward | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Journal Reports: LeadershipWhy Bosses Should Ask Employees to Do Less—Not MoreBy Robert I. SuttonToo many leaders think the key to success is to pile on staff, technology, meetings, training, rules and more. The opposite is true.
Why Bosses Should Ask Employees to Do Less—Not More
  + stars: | 2022-09-25 | by ( Robert I. Sutton | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Journal Reports: LeadershipWhen Robots Fire Workers, Best Not to Be Too Human About ItBy Chris KornelisA study finds that worker/robot interactions are very different from consumer/robot interactions
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