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What looks like a sudden departure is almost always the end of a slow, visible pattern \u2014 long days, disappearing breaks, work creeping into weekends \u2014 that nobody was tracking closely enough to catch.<\/p>\n<h2>Six Signals Worth Watching<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Long hours \u2014 consistent days well past a normal shift length<\/li>\n<li>Missed breaks \u2014 no meaningful pause across an entire tracked day<\/li>\n<li>Weekend work \u2014 activity logged on days that should be off<\/li>\n<li>Late nights \u2014 work starting before 6am or continuing past 11pm<\/li>\n<li>Declining productivity \u2014 a real drop against someone&#8217;s own baseline, not a generic average<\/li>\n<li>Weekly hours over limit \u2014 sustained overload across multiple weeks, not just one busy sprint<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>No single signal on its own means much \u2014 everyone has one long week. What matters is the combination, sustained over a rolling window, compared against each person&#8217;s own normal, not a company-wide average that flattens out real outliers.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A burnout score isn&#8217;t a verdict. It&#8217;s a prompt to have a conversation before the conversation becomes an exit interview.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2>Turning Signals Into a Number<\/h2>\n<p>TrackDots rolls these six signals into a 14-day rolling risk score, classifying each employee as High, Medium, Watch, or All Clear \u2014 recalculated daily as new activity comes in. Every flagged employee comes with a plain-language recommendation, like &#8220;consider checking in&#8221; or &#8220;monitor this week,&#8221; not just a red number with no context.<\/p>\n<p>Thresholds for what counts as a long day or a late night are fully configurable per organization. <a href=\"\/features\/burnout-detection\">See Burnout Detection &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>The Point Isn&#8217;t the Score<\/h2>\n<p>The score exists to start a conversation a manager might otherwise have missed \u2014 not to replace one. 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