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Thursday, January 29, 2026
For many professionals, the workweek has begun to feel strangely weightless. There is movement everywhere — meetings, updates, optimisations — yet little sense of arrival. Activity has become constant, direction optional. From the outside, organisations appear energetic. From the inside, many experience something quieter: a fatigue that has little to do with workload and everything to do with meaning.
