Demands Need Resources, Not Guilt

At 6:18 p.m., Maya shuts her laptop, then reopens it after a director tags her on a "quick" thread. The work is small, but the signal is large: her evenings are now negotiable by default. Job Demands-Resources Model (Bakker & Demerouti) gives demands need resources, not guilt a concrete mechanism instead of a personality label. Boundaries work when they clarify the border between roles, reduce ambiguous demands, and create a predictable cue for what happens next. The point is not to become less committed; it is to make commitment sustainable by naming the conditions under which good work can continue.…

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