The third option: Why your best employees are quietly losing their edge

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The article argues that companies often push employees into either burnout through constant pressure or boreout through chronic under-challenge. It promotes a third approach called supported stretch, where managers assign work that is slightly beyond an employee’s current comfort zone while still providing enough support to succeed. The piece says this balance helps people keep learning and leave work more capable than when they arrived. It also notes that this approach is hard to scale because it depends on managers paying close attention to individual employees. The article frames this as a leadership and culture issue rather than a compensation or benefits problem.

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