Author: Bee Mahimkar

When Work Follows You Home: Understanding “Cognitive Spillover” And How To Reclaim Your Mental Space

In today’s always-on work culture, logging off doesn’t always mean mentally switching off. You may close your laptop at 7 pm, yet find yourself replaying conversations, worrying about deadlines, or drafting tomorrow’s emails in your head while having dinner. This phenomenon has a name—cognitive spillover—and it’s becoming an increasingly common…
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When Emotional Competence Turns Into Emotional Labour

Being “emotionally mature” is often praised. You’re calm. You communicate well. You regulate yourself. You understand others’ feelings. You don’t escalate. You hold space. But for many people, what looks like emotional intelligence from the outside slowly turns into emotional labour on the inside. And that shift is exhausting. The…
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The “Sunday Night Shift”: Understanding Anticipatory Work Anxiety And How EAPs Can Help

For many employees, the workweek doesn’t begin on Monday morning—it begins on Sunday evening. There’s a familiar shift in mood: a tightening in the chest, a restless mind, an urge to check emails “just in case,” or a subtle sense of dread about the week ahead. This experience, often brushed…
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Why Emotionally Distant Leaders Create High-Turnover Teams

Employee turnover is rarely caused by a single organisational factor. Instead, it emerges from a pattern of psychological, relational, and cultural conditions that accumulate over time. One of the strongest predictors of chronic turnover—yet often the most underestimated—is emotionally distant leadership. When leaders operate with minimal emotional engagement, low relational…
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The Psychological Impact Of Leaders Who Change Directions Frequently

In organisational psychology, leadership consistency is considered a foundational condition for employee stability and performance. While adaptability and strategic responsiveness are essential traits for modern leaders, frequent and unexplained changes in direction—commonly referred to as organizational volatility—carry measurable psychological consequences for employees. These effects are not simply anecdotal; they are…
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The Culture Tax Paid By Marginalised Employees

In many modern workplaces, companies proudly talk about diversity, belonging, and inclusive culture. Posters are updated, workshops are conducted, and hashtags are added to corporate communication. But beneath the glossy slides and well-intentioned initiatives, there is a quieter, more constant reality—one that organisations rarely calculate. Marginalised employees, whether due to…
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The Cost Of Constant Self-Regulation In Corporate Roles

In today’s workplace, professionalism is often defined by composure, steady tone, measured reactions, controlled emotions. Employees are expected to manage conflict without showing frustration, absorb feedback without defensiveness, remain calm during unrealistic deadlines, and handle unpredictable stakeholders while staying “polished.” But behind this polished exterior lies an invisible emotional task…
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Sunday Dread: The Workplace Issue No One’s Talking About

Most conversations about workplace mental health focus on what happens during the workday — burnout, workload pressures, interpersonal conflict, or performance stress. But a lesser-discussed phenomenon often begins long before the week starts: the experience known as anticipatory stress, often referred to as “Sunday dread” or “pre-work anxiety.” This feeling…
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Cognitive Tunnelling At Work: The Hidden Mental Trap That Sabotages Performance

Modern workplaces demand speed, accuracy, and constant multitasking. Yet, ironically, the more pressure employees feel, the more likely they are to fall into a subtle but powerful mental trap called cognitive tunnelling — a state where the mind fixates on one task, detail, or threat and becomes blind to everything…
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