She ended the live session at 00:00:00. Then she exported every poll, every word cloud, every anonymous note. She turned the raw data into a report and sent it to the CEO with the subject line: “Before we lose them all.”

The room filled with digital faces — project managers, designers, developers from six countries. She launched the first icebreaker: “What’s one word you feel right now?”

The chat froze. Three hundred people saw it. Marina felt the room hold its breath.

The chat exploded — not with anger, but with applause emojis, raised hands, and a single message that stayed pinned at the top:

“We’re burning out.” “You killed the mentoring program.” “No one has asked us this in two years.”