Lucas
The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable Careers
The Quiet Cost of Answering Emails After Hours
- Published
- August 16, 2026
- Duration
- 10:27
- Summary source
- description
- Last updated
- Sep 13, 2026
Discusses In this episode of The Burnout Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore how after-hours emailing quietly rewi…
Summary
In this episode of The Burnout Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore how after-hours emailing quietly rewires your relationship with your evenings and your sense of professional obligation. They dig into the 'always-on' norm, the psychological toll of anticipatory stress, and what the data says about recovery time. Using the example of a mid-career manager who …
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In this episode of The Burnout Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore how after-hours emailing quietly rewires your relationship with your evenings and your sense of professional obligation. They dig into the 'always-on' norm, the psychological toll of anticipatory stress, and what the data says about recovery time. Using the example of a mid-career manager who started setting a hard cutoff at 7 p.m., they break down why the compulsion to check one more message is rarely about urgency and almost always