Tag: burnout
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Why You Can’t Stop Scrolling Even When You Know It’s Bad for You
One of the stranger things about social media is that awareness of your addiction to it doesn’t help much. You know you’ve been scrolling too long, you know you should be sleeping, and you know the work is still waiting. You might even delete the app. Then, somehow, you find yourself doomscrolling again. A recent…
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AI Was Never Meant to Reduce Your Workload
If AI allowed you to finish your work in half the time, would you actually work less… or would more work simply find you? That’s the question hiding behind most conversations about productivity today. No one wants to talk about it because, when it comes to AI adoption at the workplace, the employer’s promise to…
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The Theory of Conservation of Resources
The Theory of Conservation of Resources (COR) is a psychological stress theory developed by Stevan E. Hobfoll in 1989. It explains how people respond to stress based on their resources, i.e., things they value and try to protect. The core idea of COR is that people strive to obtain, retain, and protect resources. Stress occurs…
