Work-life balance

When work stress continues at home, recovery can suffer and sleep, mood, relationships and physical health may deteriorate. Identify causes and boundaries clearly, discuss feasible adjustments with your manager or an occupational health professional, and seek medical help for persistent or severe symptoms.

• Worrying about work outside working hours, irritability, feeling tense or being unable to relax.
• Difficulty falling asleep, waking early, restless sleep or waking tired.
• Choose a fixed finishing time, turn off work notifications and use a short end-of-day routine to set tomorrow's priorities.
• Plan daily recovery that truly relaxes you, such as gentle movement, eating without a screen, social contact or a hobby.
• Make an appointment if stress symptoms last several weeks, sleep and functioning deteriorate or time off does not restore you.
• For urgent GP care outside normal opening hours, call HAP 9252. Call Ambulance 912 only for an immediately life-threatening situation.