Your employees aren’t burned out. They’re indoors too much

Michael, a 42-year-old tax accountant, came to my office complaining of chronic anxiety, chest pressure, and what he called tunnel vision. “It’s like I’m stuck inside my screen,” he told me. “Even when I’m not working, I’m holding my phone and my brain won’t shut off.”

Is that you? Americans spend 93% of their time indoors. Insomnia, depression, metabolic disease, cognitive decline, chronic inflammation, burnout, insulin resistance, sedentariness, loneliness. We engineered the human...