The pandemic has been linked to higher rates of burnout for both essential workers and white-collar office workers, many of whom had the privilege of continuing their jobs remotely.For essential workers, the pandemic brought a myriad of new and chronic stressors related to trying to stay healthy and safe while working on site or getting to and from work, as well as many new restrictions and changes outside of their control at work.
Maslach pioneered research on burnout, creating the Maslach Burnout Inventory, a research measure that was a key contributor to the WHO's later work on burnout. "It's analogous to the canary in the coal mine," Maslach said."When the canary goes down in the coal mine and is having trouble breathing, and not surviving and not doing well, you don't worry about how to make the canary stronger and tougher; you say what's going wrong in the mine? Why are the fumes getting so toxic that a community can't survive?"
Effective communication between managers and workers is also key, Gruttadaro said, such as having check-ins where workers can feel comfortable voicing their concerns to their managers and not just through human resources departments. "There are likely to be higher incidence of burnout at jobs in which people don't have as much control over the activities they do during the day as part of their job," Gruttadaro added.
I had a burn out, just one day I couldn't do anything anymore. I remember, the panic attacks who cane out of nowhere, I started sweating, my heart started raising. I couldn't even go to the supermarket, without having a panic attack, being around to much people tricked it.
They burn out then pass their misery to their workers. They get hypnotized by their pile of money as workers get less. Its bad for everybody, it is predatory and draining. People accomplish great things working together...its what it has been all about: working together.
I never assumed it was due to a lack of self-care. I was under the impression that we were burned out due to working our asses off.
nice