Burnout Self-Test

This tool can help you check yourself for burnout. It helps you look at the way you feel about your job and your experiences at work, so that you can get a feel for whether you are at risk of burnout.

  How to Hustle Without Burning Out

There is no glory in a grind that wears you all the way down. Here's how to stop yourself from heading toward burnout — and what to do if you’re already there.

 Are You Suffering From Burnout? Here Are Signs Of The Invisible Disease

Welcome to the burnout club. It’s not a club you want to join but one where membership has grown in alarming numbers.

 Burned Out at Work? Here’s How to Find Your Passion—Or Get It Back

Follow your passion? It’s not so easy. Experts say small steps, not dramatic leaps, create the best path.

 Burnout Is Not What You Think It Is: How Leaders Can Confront The Three Faces Of Burnout

Burnout is a significant public health problem. Just this year, the World Health Organization upgraded its assessment of the threat posed by burnout. The condition, says the WHO, is a “syndrome” involving a range of symptoms related to chronic stress.

 Burnout Is Real, and the Solution Is Radically Changing How We Work

"It should not be necessary for all of us to work our asses off."

 Burnout Isn’t Just a Millennial Affliction

Anne Helen Petersen’s BuzzFeed essay correctly captures a very real condition, but in limiting it to a single generation, she precludes the most promising solutions.

 Extinguished and anguished: what is burnout and what can we do about it?

Burnout can have serious consequences, including reduced work performance and life satisfaction, and has been associated with other mental health conditions. For instance, it has been linked to depression, as both conditions share a number of symptoms such as fatigue, social withdrawal and decreased work performance.

 Feeling burned out at work? Here’s how you can take back your life.

Try these small (but effective!) tactics to help you stay off email, manage your colleagues, and reclaim your weekends.

 I was a fast-food worker. Let me tell you about burnout.

The media mostly discusses job stress in the context of white-collar, educated professionals. We don’t put nearly as much time and energy into exploring the stress of unskilled, low-wage service work — even though the jobs most Americans actually work could be mistaken for Pits of Despair.

 Millennial burnout: building resilience is no answer – we need to overhaul how we work

We know very little about how millennials experience burnout. Early research suggests there are generational differences. Specifically, millennials respond to emotional exhaustion (often the first stage of burnout) differently to baby boomers (people born between 1946 and 1964). When feeling emotionally exhausted, millennials are more likely to feel dissatisfied and want to leave their job than baby boomers.

 The Burnout Crisis in American Medicine

Are electronic medical records and demanding regulations contributing to a historic doctor shortage?

 Tips From Job Burnout Survivors: How To Heal From An Overachiever Attitude

You’re literally burning the candle at both ends. Heck, your candle is barely a flicker of light. And all those exciting projects? You don’t feel the fire like you used to when you started your job. Unfortunately, my friend, you are experiencing job burnout.

 We’re All Burned Out and Trying to Escape It

Poor mental health is not unique to one generation, but Gen Y and Gen Z are connected and responsive 24/7. It’s no wonder they’re increasingly turning to drugs as an antidote to our digital dystopia.

 What Can Workers and Employers Actually Do About Burnout?

Everyone experiences an off day at work here or there, but if you find yourself overwhelmed, indifferent to projects that normally excite you, unable to focus on the smallest task (and yet you know it’s not just time to change jobs), you’re likely experiencing burnout.

How Googlers Avoid Burnout (and Secretly Boost Creativity)

You have to "turn it off" to "turn it on" when it matters most.

The 3 Types of Burnout, According to Science

Each subtype of burnout demands a different cure, so you need to know which you have before taking action.

A guide to burnout: what it is, and how to overcome it

It’s common to feel tired after a long day at work or to need a holiday after a month-long sprint to finish a new feature. But sadly it’s also common to feel tired all the time. To lack enthusiasm about your work. To feel cynical and disengaged from what you do. These are all symptoms of burnout syndrome, which is becoming more common as our work lives become busier, more demanding, and more stressful.

For the Young Doctor About to Burn Out

Professional burnout is the sum total of hundreds and thousands of tiny betrayals of purpose, each one so minute that it hardly attracts notice.

Physician Burnout and Well-Being: A Systematic Review and Framework for Action

Physician burnout in the United States has reached epidemic proportions and is rising rapidly, although burnout in other occupations is stable. Its negative impact is far reaching and includes harm to the burned-out physician, as well as patients, coworkers, family members, close friends, and healthcare organizations.

The Millennial Burnout Conversation Also Applies to Gamers

Gamer burnout. It’s worth giving it a name if we’re going to treat it as unique in some way, and I think it is. There are a lot of games, and there’s only so much time to play them, and the reward for completing them or even making a solid effort seems to diminish year after year.

What Worker Burnout Feels Like

Managers might notice that employees skip work, leave projects unfinished.

Why Nurses Get Burned Out

On the days that end with you running off your unit, or dragging yourself from there, and eventually settling into the quietness of your car where you cry hot tears, those days you feel a little burned out. Maybe a lot.

‘Das Burnout’: An Epidemic in Germany

With many workers suffering from debilitating stress, Daimler and other companies take steps to help them; ‘BurnOut, das Musical’ sells out in Berlin