{"id":2488,"date":"2026-07-14T08:41:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T08:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ohmypeople.be\/pillars\/making-stress-work\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T12:02:39","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T12:02:39","slug":"making-stress-work","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ohmypeople.be\/en\/pillars\/making-stress-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Stress Work"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Making Stress Work<\/h1><\/div>

Burnout prevention, resilience and wellbeing at work<\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

Making Stress Work is the Oh My People pillar focused on stress prevention, burnout prevention and resilience at work. We teach organisations to read stress signals early and use them as information about boundaries, energy, and workability across four levels simultaneously: organisation, leadership, team, and individual.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

Almost one in three employees experiences <\/p>\n

work-related stress.<\/p><\/h3><\/div><\/div><\/div>

And yet, many organisations only react when it is too late: someone drops out permanently, a team gets stuck, or absenteeism skyrockets.<\/p>\n

Making Stress Work means learning what the stress in your organisation is telling you, before it is too late. Those who understand what a stress response signals about boundaries, needs and environment can take conscious action. Drawing on positive psychology and recent<\/span> <\/span>neuroscientific insights<\/a>, <\/span>we build resilience that doesn’t break under pressure, but bends and bounces back.<\/span><\/p>\n

Before we talk about tools or training, we start with two key questions for any stress policy: Who wants to? Who can? The first is about mindset, trust, and the psychological contract. The second is about capacity, stability, and predictability. If people want to but cannot, they get frustrated. If they can but do not want to, policies are written but never used. Many stress policies fail because they overlook one of these questions.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

Stress on four levels<\/span><\/h2><\/div>

Stress never occurs on just one level. That is why we always address all four levels at the same time.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>