How to set healthy work boundaries and avoid burnout

Philly Powell is the CEO and founder of Wellbeing Tick, an organisation that works with workplaces worldwide to help transform toxic cultures and improve employee wellbeing . Now a self-described wellbeing junkie, she spent much of her life with a problematic relationship with alcohol . She started a nine-month period of sobriety on April 14 last year .

.. and is still going.

OPINION “Wellbeing first, work second. Always”: Why we need to establish healthy work boundaries. It’s undeniable that work can be stressful and the pressure can feel relentless at times.

The latest data on job burnout from Professor Jarrod Haar of Auckland University of Technology provides hard evidence of this with 57% of the New Zealand workforce reporting stress levels that are categorised as “burnt-out”..