When a “youth retirement home” in Malaysia sold out its first month before it opened, the internet called Gen Z snowflakes. HR should hear something else: young people are paying to find the recovery their workplaces don’t give them.
Burnout isn’t a generational weakness. It’s a design flaw, and design is HR’s job.
The R.E.S.T. Rollout is Julie Turney’s 90-day plan for turning that insight into action. It is built on four levers you already control:
R: Recovery, built in. Rest designed into the calendar and policy, not left to willpower.
E: Expectations, made explicit. Clear priorities, a shared definition of “done” and written response-time norms.
S: Supervisors, equipped. Managers who ask about workload, not just status.
T: Track and tell. Measure the early warning signs, then show people what changed.
Inside the 9-page guide:
A 90-day map in three phases: Listen, Pilot, then Prove & Scale
Week-by-week actions, with the deliverables and watch-outs for each phase
An eight-question pulse survey you can send this week
A four-question capacity check-in script for one-to-ones
A response-time norms template for your teams
A 90-day scorecard to track progress and brief leadership
Who it’s for: HR leaders, People & Culture teams and people managers who want early-career talent to stay and do their best work. No new budget is needed to complete the first two phases.
Format: Instant PDF download, 9 pages, US Letter size, print-friendly.
Created by Julie Turney, CEO of HRatHeart Consulting Inc., TEDx speaker, LinkedIn Learning instructor and author of Confessions of an HR Pro.
