Nearly half of American workers say they feel burned out at work
In an alarming statistic, 43% of American office workers “feel burned out”, according to Slack’s Future Forum, a quarterly survey. Mentions of burn-out on Glassdoor are up 40% as compared to last year, and many experts are questioning what can be done.
Burnout syndrome is a term coined in the 1970s and refers to when workers feel that their jobs have become exhausting. The World Health Organization began recognizing the term as a legitimate occupational phenomenon in 2019, but there are still no long-term studies as to what the consequences of burnout are. While the pandemic measure subsiding was supposed to ease the signs of burnout - which were prevalent in the earlier days of the Covid-19 pandemic - it seems instead to have only gotten worse.
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