The ObservatoryWorkload
Demands, pace, responsibility and the amount of work.
Questions to ask yourself
- 1How manageable is your workload in an ordinary week?
- 2What weighs heaviest: the amount, the pace, or the responsibility?
- 3How often do you work more than is good for you?
- 4What would you need to say no to, and what is stopping you?
- 5What is the smallest change that would noticeably ease the load?
In the app, you rate the area 0–10, answer the questions, and watch how your answers shift over time.
Getting started
Article
Burnout is a system failure, not a weakness
Three signs, an uncomfortable truth about the causes, and why recovery takes more than a holiday.
2 min · Rationality
Exercise
Say no with respect
See what makes no hard, practice a short and friendly no without an apology, and have the wording ready before you need it.
10 min · Discipline
Exercise
The energy audit
Map what in your job gives energy and what drains it, and reshape a little of it.
15 min · Rationality
Exercise
One track at a time
Map your attention thieves and build a single focus block with one task and notification hygiene.
10 min · Discipline
Self-assessment
How are you doing at work?
Six scales over the core of working wellbeing: influence, competence, belonging, demands, meaning and the boundary against the rest of life.
4 min · Rationality
Exercise
The breathing room between meetings
Two minutes in the gap before the next meeting swallows you
2 min · Discipline
Exercise
The plate is full
Everything you feel you should fit in, thinned down to what actually has room
6 min · Discipline
Exercise
One minute: a micro-break between tasks
Sixty seconds away from the screen before the next task swallows you whole
1 min · Rationality