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The Quiet Cost of Always-On Work: A 2026 Field Report

Gentlepace team | March 3, 2026

We surveyed 1,842 knowledge workers across four industries about how they structure a day, and the pattern that came back most often wasn't burnout — it was a slow erosion of the pauses that used to separate one task from the next.

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