You can care about your work and still put it down.
You leave work, but work doesn't leave you. Messages follow you home, meetings replay at dinner, and rest never quite restores. Most advice treats this as a private failing. This book doesn't.
Work stress has three parts: the load (what the work asks of you), the line (how far work reaches into the rest of your life) and the landing (how you come down at the end of the day). Each needs a different response: sometimes a new habit, sometimes a clearer agreement, sometimes a change in the work itself.
• A map of 39 reasons work follows people home, from impossible workloads and shifting priorities to time zones, shift work and burnout
• 24 practical tools based on research into how people recover from work
• Ten stories of working lives from Accra to Ohio, Pune to Dublin
• Reflections from the Bhagavad Gita, the Yoga Sutras, the Buddha, the Tirukkural and Kabir
• A chapter for managers who want to make switching off normal on their teams
Book 2 of the Dharohar Everyday Life Series. A guide for reflection, not a substitute for professional, medical or legal advice.