Burnout Prevention & Recovery

Employee burnout has reached epidemic proportions, with more than 50% of workers describing themselves as feeling burnt out and as much as 95% of corporate leaders indicating that employee burnout is sabotaging workforce retention. While research has significantly focused on burnout in the workplace, people can experience burnout in any aspect of their life. Teams can also suffer from burnout.

 

There are six key components of that contribute to individual and team burnout: workload, control, reward, community, fairness, and values. 

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Potential for burnout emerges when there is a mismatch between one or more of these six areas and expectations, capabilities, and career and/or home situation. Over time, engagement and performance erode not only because people have too much to do, but because the demands being placed on them exceed the physical and emotional resources they have available to deal with the stressors.