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With the intensity of work looking set to continue, it's critical for employees to know when they're experiencing "healthy" stress, versus something more dangerous, a leadership specialist says.

In line with the correlation between stress and performance, healthy stress is experienced when employees are motivated and driven to complete a task, says The Performance Code founder Kylee Stone.

On the other hand, unhealthy stress lies at two ends of the spectrum – low-level stress can decrease productivity and performance, whereas high-level stress is likely to result in burnout...