Now We’re Two Years Into Covid and Burnout Has Gotten So Much Worse

41% of people are planning to quit their jobs in the next three
months. 41%!


We first tackled the topic of employee burnout a year ago and
much has happened since then: a bunch of variants, restrictions
being lifted and reset, and an event known as The Great
Resignation, where more people have quit their jobs than ever
before.


And now we’re starting to see the effects of prolonged
work-from-home jobs and from employers who are doing little or
nothing to address burnout. We’re seeing a blurring of lines
between job and life, an old work system we’re never going back
to, and people who just can’t take it anymore. They’re quitting
their jobs, often with no new job to go to, because they are flat
out done.


What about you? How can you detect burnout and what can you do to
solve it? How much of it is even yours to solve and what should
fall to your boss. And where do we go from here?


Jennifer Moss is a burnout expert who fought burnout herself when
writing her book, The Burnout Epidemic: The Rise of Chronic
Stress and How We Can Fix It. She tells us about innovative
approaches that companies like HP are taking and how other
employers are giving out football tickets and hoping for the
best.


Visit Jennifer Moss’ website here. Get your copy of her
book, The Burnout Epidemic, wherever books are sold. Follow her
on Twitter @JenLeighMoss.


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