8 Simple Rules for Beating Digital Exhaustion

It’s 6:30 PM, and you’ve been in back-to-back meetings since 8:00 AM. Your inbox shows 137 unread messages, your Slack notifications have hit triple digits, and you have three dashboards open with data that needs review before tomorrow. You feel that familiar hollowness setting in—not physical fatigue or job burnout but a distinctly modern form of depletion. You’re experiencing what research now identifies as “digital exhaustion.”