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During the pandemic we pushed employees to do numerous challenging things. People built makeshift home offices, learned to adapt to the constant use of masks in their personal and professional lives, and changed job titles and responsibilities at an unprecedented pace.

However, it has come at a cost. This remarkable level of mobility, positive in many ways (workers who changed companies received almost a 10% wage increase vs. 5% for those who stayed, for example), has left a significant legacy of workforce stress. For instance, Mercer's latest data shows that 81% or more of the workforce are experiencing burnout.

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