INTRODUCTION · 9
1 Our Job Now Is to Flatten the Curve · 11
2 What Do I Tell My Team? · 17
3 Top 10%, Bottom 10% · 23
4 The End of the Beginning · 29
5 This Is Nothing Like Mat Leave · 35
6 But How Do I Know They're Working? · 41
7 Is Anyone Really Thinking about Work Right Now? · 47
8 Are We Gonna Talk about That Asterisk? · 55
9 You'd Know the Answer for Sidewalk Chalk · 61
10 Checkmate in Five Moves · 69
11 The Waiting Is the Hardest Part · 77
12 Just Because You Have Wi-Fi Doesn't Mean You're Connected · 85
13 Cheerful Swearing for a Change · 93
14 262,800 Minutes · 99
15 How to Quit Your Job During a Pandemic · 107
16 Companies Don't Make Decisions-People Do · 115
17 Is It Okay If I Eat While We Talk? · 123
18 Read This First · 129
19 But We're Being Really Careful · 135
20 Evidence-Based Hope · 143
21 It's Not Rest If You Can't Sleep · 149
22 Has Your Eye Stopped Twitching Yet? · 157
23 Who Tells You No? · 163
24 If There's Light at the End of the Tunnel, Why Is It Still So Dark? · 171
25 Hovering Over Decline and Clicking Accept · 179
26 The Beginning of the End · 187
27 Can You Talk About Why Everyone Is Quitting? · 195
28 Elijah, You Need to Unmute · 203
EPILOGUE: It's Not Worth It · 211
NOTES · 218
GRATITUDE · 226
ABOUT THE AUTHORS · 228
