Stressed Worker Facing Deadline

A tense office scene showing a woman overwhelmed at her desk, surrounded by paperwork and focused on a laptop. Ideal for illustrating project deadline pressure, burnout, or high workload in modern workplace storytelling.

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Use as a cutaway/B-roll still for videos about tight deadlines, project crunch time, workplace stress, productivity challenges, or HR/wellbeing messaging; also works as a thumbnail with headline text placed in the left negative space.

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