Saying 'no' is an act of self-care: How to set healthy work boundaries

Remote working may be to blame. Lauren Taylor speaks to experts about the importance of boundary setting in our careers.
Saying 'no' is an act of self-care: How to set healthy work boundaries

A consistent, long-standing lack of boundaries around what you can and can not feasibly achieve in your working hours is a slippery slope to burnout.

After more than 18 months of enforced homeworking during the pandemic, the lines between our professional lives and our personal lives have blurred.

Many of us have work laptops on our dining tables, work emails arriving on our mobiles at all times of the day, and evenings and weekends that look suspiciously like work days.

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