About

Fifty notes on employee wellbeing and burnout prevention, written from the employer's side of the problem.

Who this is for

Managers who have been made responsible for their team's wellbeing. People and HR teams designing programmes. Occupational health. Executives deciding what to fund. Anyone who has watched a good team deteriorate and wanted to know what would actually help.

How the notes are written

Conditions before coping. What the work demands, before any question of how people might better tolerate it.

Methods you can run. Where a note says something is measurable, it says how, using data most organisations already hold.

Limits stated plainly. One note is entirely about what an employer cannot fix and should not try to.

The uncomfortable findings included. Access reviews of the kind most organisations run produce no removals. Consolidating tools frequently costs more than it saves. Endpoint telemetry is employee monitoring whatever it is called internally. These are stated because programmes built without them waste effort or damage trust.

What this is not

Not clinical advice. Nothing here describes how to diagnose or treat anyone. Several notes are specifically about the boundary: managers notice, ask, adjust the work and refer. They do not counsel, diagnose or hold clinical risk.

Not legal advice. Descriptions of psychosocial risk duties, working time rules, adjustments and data protection are general and vary enormously by jurisdiction.

Not a wellness programme. These notes argue against wellness programmes offered in place of changing working conditions, which is the most common form the subject takes.

If you are struggling yourself

This site is about how organisations design work. It is not a source of support for an individual in difficulty, and it would be wrong to present it as one.

If you are having a hard time, please speak to your doctor, to your employer's assistance programme if one exists, or to a mental health service in your country. That is a better use of your time than anything here.

About this domain

This address previously belonged to the personal website of a freelance writer, blogger and tutor, including a long-running personal blog about his own family.

None of that material is here, and none of it should be. It was personal writing by a named individual about his own children, published under his own name. Acquiring a lapsed domain transfers no right to republish someone's personal writing, and republishing family material about identifiable children would be wrong regardless of the legal position.

Every previous address returns a clear "gone" response rather than redirecting to unrelated material.