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Well-Being Features

Well-being features in incident management are tools and policies that support the mental and physical health of on-call engineers.

What Are Well-Being Features

Well-being features in incident management are tools and policies that support the mental and physical health of on-call engineers. These may include workload limits, stress tracking, and time-off planning.

Why Are Well-Being Features Important

Supporting well-being helps reduce burnout and keeps teams alert during incidents. Healthy teams respond faster and make fewer mistakes.

How To Implement Well-Being Features With Spike

  • Enable Cooldown mode after handling incidents to prevent alert overload during recovery
  • Use Deep Work mode when you need focused time-only critical alerts will reach you
  • Activate Out of Office mode when unavailable so alerts route to other team members
  • Set up these modes with one click in your Spike profile or mobile app
  • Schedule these modes in advance for planned focus time or time off

Protect your team from burnout while maintaining reliable incident response—try Spike's well-being features with Spike.

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