Chrysta Wilson | Pressure-Proofing Teams

Microsoft's layoffs bomb has people across tech nervous. A director in tech told me something this week that stayed with me. Her division has had no conversation about layoffs. None. And people are nervous anyway.

They see the headlines. Microsoft, 60,000 voluntary exits. Cuts keep rolling across the tech sector. And they wonder: could we be next?

Here's what those headlines leave out. When a company lays people off, the work those people did doesn't disappear. Someone still has to do it. Some of it moves to AI. Some of it can't be automated, so it needs people. And until it's distributed well, it piles up on whoever's still in the building.

That's where work quality, performance, and burnout come in, usually as second or third thoughts.

This is what I mean by pressure in my book, Pressure-Proof Teams. The Pressure-Proof framework is about building the self, team, and structural capacities so that people, performance, processes, and culture don't break after a pressure incident.

Not in tech? There's still work for you. Review workload capacity now, before a sudden pressure point makes things worse. Preventative and pre-emptive beat the battlefield approach most of our clients arrive with.

Send me a message and we'll do a quick tension audit together.