8 Battle Burnout with This Acronym
by Carson Tate
The days blur together, your eyedrops no longer help with Zoom fatigue, and the thought of opening the pigsty that is masquerading as your inbox makes you want to scream.
Overwhelmed, overstretched, and just entirely over it, in the last year, seven in 10 workers have experienced burnout.1
The World Health Organization recognized burnout as an official occupational syndrome back in 2019.2 It’s defined as the result of chronic workplace stress and characterized by three things:
- Feelings of energy depletion or exhaustion
- Increased mental distance from or cynicism about your job
- Reduced professional efficacy (i.e., you’re unproductive)
Burnout is an organizational issue—meaning we, as employees, ...
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