It is my firm belief that workplace stress has been around in one form or another for ages. However, what has changed over time is its structure and intensity - the beast has starkly metamorphosed. Today, amplified by technology-driven jobs and laggard employment rates, stress has become a constant hum of fatigue, dissatisfaction, and the pressure to remain perpetually available.

These anxieties rarely stay within the four walls of the office; rather, they sneak out surreptitiously into the outside world, magnifying personal, emotional, and physiological fault lines like never before. I have witnessed all these changes during my nearly four decades of corporate life experience.

My career — like those of many others - has had its share of tranquillity and turbulence, highs and lows, shaped by hierarchies, interpersonal dynamics, and the often........

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