Some studies have shown that 1 in every 3 working adults is suffering from varying degrees of burnout!
Burnout has been linked to coronary artery disease, hypertension, sleep disturbances, depression, anxiety, and increased drug and alcohol use. Besides the huge personal toll, this obviously flows over into productivity and work performance. This costs your business money! Estimates peg the cost of this lost productivity due to burnout in the $10’s of billions per year in North America alone!
According to psychologist Christina Maslach in her 2016 HBR article, burnout arises from: