About this session
Digital wellbeing is not about rejecting technology. It is about using technology in ways that support work rather than allowing messages, notifications, meetings, devices, and unclear availability expectations to dominate attention and extend work indefinitely.
Participants examine how their working day moves between communication, meetings, focused tasks, digital platforms, breaks, and life outside work.
They identify where technology genuinely helps and where habits or workplace expectations create unnecessary interruption, checking, after-hours work, or difficulty switching off.
The session combines personal strategies with team and organizational realities.
Participants create clearer digital boundaries, improve notification and communication habits, protect recovery, and explore how expectations around responsiveness, urgency, meetings, and availability can be made more explicit.
The aim is sustainable digital working — not asking individuals to compensate indefinitely for an always-on culture.
What your people take away
- Understand how digital work can blur the boundaries between working time and personal time
- Identify the notifications, communication patterns, meetings, and habits creating the greatest digital friction
- Create realistic boundaries around availability, responsiveness, and after-hours communication
- Use technology more intentionally without disconnecting from colleagues or responsibilities
- Protect recovery and transitions between work and life
- Distinguish personal digital habits from team or organizational practices that also need to change
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30 minutes
30 Minutes — Key Points: Understand Your Digital Working PatternsA focused 30-minute session on three key points from Understand Your Digital Working Patterns: map where digital work expands, identify the digital friction and notice the always-on loop.
- Map where digital work expands
- Identify the digital friction
- Notice the always-on loop
Covers 3 of 4 points in Understand Your Digital Working Patterns.
60 minutes
Create Better Digital BoundariesA focused introduction to digital wellbeing and work-life balance. Participants identify the digital patterns extending their working day, clarify availability and response expectations, and choose practical boundaries that protect time and recovery without compromising important work.
- Digital working patterns
- Always-on culture
- Availability vs. connectivity
- Response expectations
- Notifications
- Digital Balance Quick Plan
- Live Q&A
Covers 1 of 4 parts: Understand Your Digital Working Patterns.
90 minutes
Build a Healthier Relationship With Digital WorkThe extended session moves from digital awareness into availability, notifications, communication habits, workday transitions, recovery, after-hours working, and team expectations. Participants build a practical digital-balance plan around their actual working environment.
- Digital friction mapping
- Availability and urgency
- Notification design
- Start and stop boundaries
- Psychological detachment
- Digital transitions
- Flexible working
- Digital Wellbeing Action Plan
- Live Q&A
Covers 2 of 4 parts: Understand Your Digital Working Patterns and Create Healthier Digital Boundaries.
3 hours
Covers 3 of 4 parts: Understand Your Digital Working Patterns, Create Healthier Digital Boundaries and Protect Recovery & Life Outside Work.
Full day
Digital Wellbeing & Work-Life Balance LabA practical full-day workshop covering all four modules. Participants map their digital working patterns, audit communication and notification load, redesign availability boundaries, strengthen recovery and work-life transitions, and create practical personal and team digital-working agreements.
- Module 1 — Understand Your Digital Working Patterns
- Module 2 — Create Healthier Digital Boundaries
- Module 3 — Protect Recovery & Life Outside Work
- Module 4 — Build Sustainable Digital Working Norms
- Digital Working Pattern Audit
- Always-On Loop Mapping
- Notification & Channel Review
- Availability & Urgency Exercise
- Workday Transition Design
- After-Hours Communication Scenarios
- Team Digital Norms Lab
- 90-Day Digital Wellbeing Plan
- Live Q&A
Covers all 4 parts.
Also available as a 4-week or 8-week program, for change that lasts. Ask us about it.
What’s covered
Understand Your Digital Working Patterns
Every length- Map where digital work expandsDigital work can extend beyond scheduled hours through early checking, evening messages, unfinished tasks, mobile notifications, and the feeling that work is always within reach.
- Identify the digital frictionNot every digital demand has the same impact.
- Notice the always-on loopChecking a message can create another task, which creates another reply, which creates another reason to remain connected.
- Separate personal habit from workplace expectationSomeone may check email late because of habit, because their manager expects rapid responses, or because the team has never agreed what responsiveness actually means.
Create Healthier Digital Boundaries
90 minutes and longer- Define what availability actually meansBeing reachable through a device does not automatically mean being available for work.
- Make response expectations explicitDigital pressure often comes from guessing how quickly somebody expects an answer.
- Design your notificationsDefault notification settings are designed around the application, not around the employee's priorities or wellbeing.
- Create start & stop boundariesRemote and hybrid work can remove the physical transition that once marked the beginning and end of a working day.
Protect Recovery & Life Outside Work
3 hours and longer- Understand psychological detachmentTime away from work is less restorative when attention remains occupied by messages, unfinished tasks, or anticipation of what might arrive next.
- Create better digital transitionsMoving directly from the final video call into personal responsibilities can leave little opportunity for the mind to shift contexts.
- Protect offline attentionWork technology can compete with conversations, meals, exercise, hobbies, family time, and rest even when no active work is required.
- Plan for high-demand periodsSome roles and projects legitimately involve temporary periods of greater digital availability.
Build Sustainable Digital Working Norms
Full day only- Reduce unnecessary digital demandDigital wellbeing improves when teams reduce avoidable demand rather than simply becoming better at tolerating it.
- Make flexibility work both waysFlexible working can allow people to adapt work around life, but flexibility becomes less valuable if employees are expected to remain available across every possible working pattern.
- Model boundaries through behaviorPolicies matter less when everyday behavior communicates a different expectation.
- Build a digital working agreementTeams benefit from explicit agreements covering channels, response expectations, meetings, notifications, after-hours communication, urgent issues, availability, and recovery.
Tools and materials
- Digital Working Pattern Map
- Digital Friction Audit
- Notification & Interruption Audit
- Availability & Response Map
- Urgency Definition Guide
- Boundary Conversation Planner
- Shutdown Ritual Builder
- Recovery & Detachment Planner
- Team Digital Norms Builder
- Digital Working Agreement
How booking works
- Book online. Create a free Workbliss profile, then pay with session credits, by card or by invoice.
- Pick a date. Choose a date at least 14 days ahead, or book now and set the date later.
- Choose your expert. Within 3 working days, we send you profiles of the experts available for your date.
- We deliver it. Your expert is briefed on your people and goals, then runs the session live online or at your site.
Questions about Digital Wellbeing & Work-Life Balance
How long is Digital Wellbeing & Work-Life Balance?
Digital Wellbeing & Work-Life Balance runs as 30 minutes, 60 minutes, 90 minutes, 3 hours or full day. You choose the length when you book. A 30-minute session covers three key points from Understand Your Digital Working Patterns: map where digital work expands, identify the digital friction and notice the always-on loop. A 60-minute session covers Understand Your Digital Working Patterns in full, with a live Q&A. A 90-minute session adds Create Healthier Digital Boundaries. A 3-hour session adds Protect Recovery & Life Outside Work. A full-day session adds Build Sustainable Digital Working Norms. It is also available as a 4-week or 8-week program.
Can Digital Wellbeing & Work-Life Balance be delivered online or in person?
Yes, both. It runs live online, so every office can join at the same time, or in person at your site, in any country.
How do we book Digital Wellbeing & Work-Life Balance?
Create a free Workbliss profile with your work email, then open Digital Wellbeing & Work-Life Balance to see the price for each length and book it. You can pay with session credits, by card or by invoice, and choose a date at least 14 days ahead, or set it later.
Who leads the session?
A vetted Workbliss expert, briefed on your people, culture and goals before the session. After you book, we send you profiles of the experts available for your date within 3 working days, so you can choose who leads it.
Can it be tailored to our company?
Yes. Every session is shaped around your goals, your people and the benefits you already offer, and delivered by experts in your people’s languages.