America's workers are exhausted and burned out — and some employer are taking notice [washingtonpost.com]

Rafael Maravilla(PACEs Connection Staff) 7/6/2110:05 AM

By Soo Youn, The Washington Post, June 29, 2021

Meg Trowbridge’s plans for the week are pretty simple. She’ll take long, meandering walks and explore some new parks and visit the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art for the first time since 2019 — all on company time.

“I’m so excited to take a morning or afternoon walk when I’m not in the crowd of after-work people,” said Trowbridge, a copywriter for Mozilla, which produces the Firefox Web browser.“I’m definitely going to hit SF MOMA and just stroll and see how long I can just get lost in the museum again because it’s been so long, and I feel like just getting inspired.”

In pre-pandemic times, Trowbridge would have joined colleagues from around the world at Mozilla’s annual two-week off-site meeting — last held in Berlin in January 2020 — a mix of creative work and networking that left her both exhilarated and exhausted, she said.

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