FlexAbility: How high achievers beat burnout and find freedom in an overworked world

Despite the promise of a post-pandemic reset that would make flexible work practices mainstream, it seems that overwork is here to stay.

According to leading executive coach and psychologist, Dr Karen Morley, overwork is driven by ambitious, competitive and over-confident bosses who chase continuous growth and are prepared to sacrifice their own health and wellbeing, and that of their workforce, to achieve increasingly unrealistic targets. Remote work or not, this hasnt changed. High achieving, conscientious and agreeable leaders, the lifeblood of organizational success, get caught in the slipstream. In a world where overwork remains an expectation, flexible work has not been the solution we had all been hoping for. Rather, it has just blurred the boundaries between personal and professional life.

Its time for leaders to take better control of where and when they work - a concept the author refers to as flexAbility. Flexibility is how the system operates, flexAbility is how to operate in this demanding system.