8 Simple Rules for Beating Digital Exhaustion

It’s 6:30 p.m. and you’ve been in back-to-back meetings since 8:00 a.m. Your inbox shows 137 unread messages, your Slack notifications have reached triple digits, and you have three dashboards open with data that needs to be reviewed before tomorrow. You feel that familiar emptiness settling in – not physical fatigue or burnout, but a distinctly modern form of exhaustion. You are experiencing what research now identifies as “digital burnout.”