🧠 Theme: “Rest is Resistance: Ending the Culture of Burnout & Exploitation”

For decades, workplaces have equated busyness with productivity, exhaustion with dedication, and burnout with success. This month, we challenge toxic productivity culture and redefine rest, well-being, and sustainable work as non-negotiable human rights.

This Month Will Challenge Organisations to:

✔ Examine how toxic productivity culture is embedded into workplace policies.
✔ Implement policies that centre well-being, flexible work, and real work-life balance.
✔ Shift performance evaluations from hours worked to meaningful impact.
✔ Ensure rest and recovery are seen as workplace rights, not rewards.

🔹 Content Mix for This Month:

• 🛠️ The Workplace Rest & Well-Being Audit – A self-assessment tool for measuring burnout risks and unhealthy work culture.
• 📖 The Sustainable Work & Rest Framework – Embedding Well-Being into Workplace Policies – A guide for implementing policies that support real work-life balance.
• 🎥 Video Lesson: “Productivity Culture is Killing Us – Here’s How We Fix It” – A deep dive into why burnout is systemic, not personal.
• 🔥 Live Workshop: The Future of Work is Rest – Designing Sustainable Workplaces – A strategy session on embedding rest into workplace structures.
• 💬 Community Reflection: “What Would Work Look Like If Burnout Wasn’t Normal?”

🔥 Why This Month Feels Different:

🔹 Shifts the focus from individual self-care to systemic workplace change.
🔹 Challenges deeply ingrained capitalist mindsets about work, rest, and worth.
🔹 Forces organisations to prove they value employee well-being with real policy changes.

Additional Resource:

Month 7 Wrap-Up & Next Steps – Making Sustainable Work the New Standard