'I couldn't switch off': How an IT leader moved from burnout to balance

‘There's so much dependency on IT working’

Tom Allen
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'I couldn't switch off': How an IT leader moved from burnout to balance

The modern world depends on IT – heaping stress on the professionals in the sector until they snap.

It's more than 20 years since Walter S. Humphrey famously wrote, "Every business is a software business." The terminology's changed a bit since then - these days we'd say "technology" - but the mes...

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