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Are We Experiencing a Burnout Epidemic? (washingtonpost.com)
"Burnout is everywhere," reports the Washington Post.
"Caused in part by social media, the 24-hour news cycle and the pressure to check work email outside of office hours, it could hit you, too -- especially if you don't know how to nip it in the bud..." A recent report from Harvard and Massachusetts medical organizations declared physician burnout a public health crisis. It pointed out the problem not only harms doctors but also patients. "Burnout is associated with increasing medical errors," the paper said... Ninety-five percent of human resource leaders say burnout is sabotaging workplace retention, often because of overly heavy workloads, one [2017] survey found. Poor management contributes to the burnout epidemic. "Organizations typically reward employees who are putting in longer hours and replace workers who aren't taking on an increased workload, which is a systematic problem that causes burnout in the first place," says Dan Schawbel, research director of Future Workplace, the firm that conducted the survey along with Kronos
Part of the difficulty of pinpointing true burnout may be because burnout is a nonmedical term -- at least in the United States. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders doesn't list it as an illness. But other countries including France, Denmark and Sweden, do recognize burnout syndrome and consider it to be a legitimate reason to take a sick day from work.... For those who suspect they might be on the road to burnout, there are practical tools to mitigate it. Among others: physical exercise, sleep and positive social connection (the real kind, not the Facebook kind).
The Post also ran a follow-up article which suggests that to fight burnout, companies need to set reasonable work hours -- and develop a culture encouraging breaks and vacations.
"Caused in part by social media, the 24-hour news cycle and the pressure to check work email outside of office hours, it could hit you, too -- especially if you don't know how to nip it in the bud..." A recent report from Harvard and Massachusetts medical organizations declared physician burnout a public health crisis. It pointed out the problem not only harms doctors but also patients. "Burnout is associated with increasing medical errors," the paper said... Ninety-five percent of human resource leaders say burnout is sabotaging workplace retention, often because of overly heavy workloads, one [2017] survey found. Poor management contributes to the burnout epidemic. "Organizations typically reward employees who are putting in longer hours and replace workers who aren't taking on an increased workload, which is a systematic problem that causes burnout in the first place," says Dan Schawbel, research director of Future Workplace, the firm that conducted the survey along with Kronos
Part of the difficulty of pinpointing true burnout may be because burnout is a nonmedical term -- at least in the United States. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders doesn't list it as an illness. But other countries including France, Denmark and Sweden, do recognize burnout syndrome and consider it to be a legitimate reason to take a sick day from work.... For those who suspect they might be on the road to burnout, there are practical tools to mitigate it. Among others: physical exercise, sleep and positive social connection (the real kind, not the Facebook kind).
The Post also ran a follow-up article which suggests that to fight burnout, companies need to set reasonable work hours -- and develop a culture encouraging breaks and vacations.
Pick 2 out of 3 and shaddap.
Is there any sort of guideline/range/fuzzy-logic-set of behaviors or symptoms that indicate that you are definitely not/likely not/maybe/likely/definitely experiencing or approaching burnout? It seems like you'd want to be able to definitely rule it out as something that you're experiencing, unless it's an issue of work/life balance, which never seems to be possible.
If there was a way to make it contagious, I bet there would definitely be a push to address it somehow.
Work til you drop, then we replace you.
No chance of things ever changing there.
The whole slavery "thing" is deep in their DNA.
They're all battery hens that are too ignorant to realise it.
Sad.
"i.
don't
give
a
fuck."
that's how to avoid this so-called burnout. when you have no fucks to give.. life is absolutely grand.
(in the presence of others, such as your boss, best to 'think it' not say it).
Better to burnout than to rust out. Onward capitalist machine! To our deaths with a whimper...
Aw, they have to work to earn money. My heart bleeds for their plight. Poor things.
I rented a primitive cabin in NH this winter where there was no cell service within 10 miles. We had no power, plumbing - just a wood stove.
And it was fantastic...
Yes - there is an epidemic of mindblowing burnouts - and I love it!
Burnout Fever
People in other countries burnout because they work hard.
I switched to this new job, in part because of their "unlimited vacation" policy. And as you are able to predict, I fell for some bullshit. My first year there I took like 3.5 weeks off when HR sent me a letter saying I needed to keep it under 3 weeks. Like wait a second, I thought it was UNLIMITED (as long as I got my shit done)?
I understand that companies do "unlimited" to prevent paying out for unused vacation time, but to limit it seems like the company wins both ways. I'm aware of plenty of coworkers who take less than a week vacation off per year. Morons.
I would GLADLY give up some pay for more vacation time. How do companies not realize employees need time to recharge their mental batteries, and it is at the benefit of the company to let them do so. Someone needs to teach companies and HR departments that after a certain point, more time spent in the office will only offer diminishing returns, and they truly need to support a work-life balance, not just say they do.
The shortage of doctors in the US may be, in part, to blame for their long hours and burnout. Their professional organizations have limited the number of medical school and residency slots, which partly explains how they're paid about twice as much as those in other developed countries. Given that a large majority of freshmen entering US universities have pre-med aspirations, there is no lack of potential doctors in the US. More reading here:
The problem of doctors’ salaries
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Stop whining, coaltards.
I can see where people would indeed be at risk of too much Burnout, given how many releases they have had.
The answer might be to take a step back for a while, and maybe not play the game that is Burnout.
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Betteridge's law of headlines says so.
For generations people would go to work, work, go home, and repeat. Then, some narcissistic hipsters who are obsessed with so many unimportant things (except for doing their jobs, working, etc.) come along and bitch about how hard it is, and then get burned out. Boo hoo.
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You've reached a new low by posting very specific threats against SuperKendall. You're 54. Act your damn age.
Millennials. They just can't handle it, just like everything else in their lives. They can't take care of themselves. They can't hold a job. They can't leave their parent's house. They can't make a bowl of cold breakfast cereal. On, and on, and on...the excuses flow like the Amazon. (The river, that is, but it may as well be the flow of packages from the other Amazon.)
The only thing they CAN do is blame everything and everyone else.
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That's "best ya got"?
u WISH u were ME (as ur POOR imitation = the sincerest form of flattery).
WASTING ur life STALKING me by UNIDENTIFIABLE anon OR IMPERSONATING me?
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And not just physical but mental exhaustion. Because we're not shovelling coal all day people expect us to be just as quick, attentive and efficient after 10 solid hours doing mentally taxing work as we were when we walked in the door.
When you're taxing your brain for practically every second you're awake it, like every other muscle, is going to get tired and you're going to fuck up, be slower and generally less able to do what you do.
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* I really like Linux - a LOT (easier to secure than Windows by FAR & IF I need "deep level code"? It's there - no "hidden" NTDLL.DLL API bs Windows had (undocumented API etc.)).
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Do you ever get burnout from your job at the truckstop?
Can you validly prove APK works at a truckstop? Let's see your proof.
Wah Waaah....said the lazy, unskilled, hipster-wannabe millennial. I would not be surprised that this one barely has to performed 10 seconds of "quick, attentive, and efficient" thought during the 8 hour (not 10) shift at McDullards. Even France doesn't have enough cheese for this amount of whine.
Burnout due to a lack of self-control or obsessive compulsive behavior is a different beast than being at the whim of external factors, and that is what is afflicting most. We are doing it to ourselves. Put the phone down, and if you can't, seek help.
Only slackers take sick days.
The source of all this is the fact that they are managing health care as a for profit business. It cuts into the profits to hire more staff, and train them.
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Big if true.
Implementing the vacations/more sick days/ etc would negatively affect stock values for shareholders. This is actually illegal for a corporation to do in the US, without providing concrete facts stating that it would lead to higher yields (good luck with that).
Khazar Talmudic Jews believe this of all they call goyim/gentiles (any non-jew): Jews = biggest racists of all for which they "jew guilt" you for no less! They're hypocrites known as thieves all thru history or were Argentines in the 1940 under Peron, Spanish inquistion, France (1306), Egypt (despoiled/robbed by jews), Arabs (pre & post 1948), England (1330 Edward longshanks), Romans under titus, Russia pogroms and Germany who got rid of them from their nations nazi german's too? No. Driven into DESERTS ages ago! Don't wonder why after all those exilings above.
Should anyone doubt any of this see Jacob Javits' crony Rosenthal spill the beans on it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4zMVZ8HnFI/ where he called all Christianity fools for helping Israel and the biggest scam of all time per their beliefs below from their Talmud.
This is the province of the synagogue of Satan (Pharisees whom Jesus Christ himself kicked to the curb out of the temple & they killed him for it. Jeremiah did the same to them also + the Essenes could not stand them either breaking away from the pharisee corruption):
Jew Talmud excerpts (the book that calls Christ's mother a whore & a bastard of a roman soldier):
1. Sanhedrin 59a: "Murdering Goyim is like killing a wild animal."
2. Abodah Zara 26b: "Even the best of the Gentiles should be killed."
3. Sanhedrin 59a: "A goy (Gentile) who pries into The Law (Talmud) is guilty of death."
4. Yebhamoth 11b: "Sexual intercourse with a little girl is permitted if she is three years of age."
5. Schabouth Hag. 6d: "Jews may swear falsely by use of subterfuge wording."
6. Hilkkoth Akum X1: "Do not save Goyim in danger of death."
7. Hilkkoth Akum X1: "Show no mercy to the Goyim."
8. Choschen Hamm 388, 15: "If it can be proven that someone has given the money of Israelites to the Goyim, a way must be found after prudent consideration to wipe him off the face of the earth."
9. Choschen Hamm 266,1: "A Jew may keep anything he finds which belongs to the Akum (Gentile). For he who returns lost property (to Gentiles) sins against the Law by increasing the power of the transgressors of the Law. It is praiseworthy, however, to return lost property if it is done to honor the name of God, namely, if by so doing, Christians will praise the Jews and look upon them as honorable people."
10. Szaaloth-Utszabot, The Book of Jore Dia 17: "A Jew should and must make a false oath when the Goyim asks if our books contain anything against them."
11. Baba Necia 114, 6: "The Jews are human beings, but the nations of the world are not human beings but beasts."
12. Simeon Haddarsen, fol. 56-D: "When the Messiah comes every Jew will have 2800 slaves."
13. Nidrasch Talpioth, p. 225-L: "Jehovah created the non-Jew in human form so that the Jew would not have to be served by beasts. The non-Jew is consequently an animal in human form, and condemned to serve the Jew day and night."
14. Aboda Sarah 37a: "A Gentile girl who is three years old can be violated."
15. Gad. Shas. 2:2: "A Jew may violate but not marry a non-Jewish girl."
16. Tosefta. Aboda Zara B, 5: "If a goy kills a goy or a Jew, he is responsible; but if a Jew kills a goy, he is NOT responsible."
17. Schulchan Aruch, Choszen Hamiszpat 388: "It is permitted to kill a Jewish denunciator everywhere. It is permitted to kill him even before he denounces."
18. Schulchan Aruch, Choszen Hamiszpat 348: "All property of other nations belongs to the Jewish nation, which, consequently, is entitled to seize upon it without any scruples."
19. Tosefta, Abda Zara VIII, 5: "How to interpret the word 'robbery.' A goy is forbidden to steal, rob, or take women slaves, etc., from a goy or from a Jew. But a Jew is NOT forbidden to do all this to a goy."
20. Seph. Jp., 92, 1: "God has given the Jews power over the possessions and blood of all nations."
21. Schulchan Aruch, Choszen H
It's not an epidemic; it's another generation having a mid-life crisis and thinking they're the first generation to ever experience it.
But other countries including France, Denmark and Sweden, do recognize burnout syndrome and consider it to be a legitimate reason to take a sick day from work
Can you actually read TFA? For France, "No of subjects with acknowledged burnout syndrome (yr)" and "No of compensated subjects (yr)" is just one single person for 2015.
Try a good all day beer bender - works for me everytime, busts me right out of the rut.
Workers who can study, keep pace with work and can learn new ideas.
Staff who never had to study a lot? Who never had to learn? Who never had to pass a lot of exams?
They can't be expected to have the needed skills. Don't hire people who could not understand much about learning.
Got some people who want to work for your brand?
Did they study and pass their exams?
No non academic considerations year after year?
Did the education they got given have any actual academic part?
Some simple questions when looking back over a persons past will find the people who can learn and study.
They have the skills and ability to grown your brand year after year. Not just take a wage.
No more staff that show up to work and expect to be helped and supported all day.
Staff who arrive late and who create long weekends by not been at work.
Stop brining people who cant and won't work into your brand and expecting them to work. They wont work.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
Like AIDS, this "epidemic" is the result of behavioral choices that people could clearly avoid, but decide not to.
It's hard to sympathize when people do it to themselves.
-Styopa
... to meet expectations. After a while, it either hits you that it's just not worth it; and you choose what to do from there. Or you burnout trying.
I tend to rant.
Are they saying Americans are not taking sick time when they feel burned out or over worked? It's more likely that it's had never been studied.
I'll take off a day or two for burnout. I call them sick days, but think of them as "mental health days". I would be genuinely shocked if this were not a common practice.
HR has never complained. I still get my bonuses and raises. I have never been moved out of a job or even passed over for promotion (that I know of). Just because the DSM down have an entry for burnout does
I burned out back in 2005. WAAAAAAY before it was cool.
How I know I really had a burn-out? Let me give you an example: The fuckers dared to ask me back, twice. Even quite a few months after I walked away, the minute they asked my blood pressure probably doubled. This is not a comfortable sensation. I didn't need to say anything, people took one look at me and started backing away. I *still* can't talk about that company for more than a few minutes before my blood pressure starts to rise again. There is much more but I'll spare you the details.
The bottom line for me is that I worked way too long, way too hard, got way too angry about the whole thing, and it had a serious physiological impact that lingered for years. Oh, and it also destroyed my career. It's really hard to get hired when all the huggy feely HR and recruiter types take one look at you and decide that you must be toxic. That wasn't the case beforehand.
How'd you suppose you'd measure that falsifiably? Questionaires and a points system, heat cameras, what?
A few years ago they were the entitled youngsters. Now they are adults in the real world and they, oh, feel so burnt out!
Are you dumb enough to think that everyone on /. is young enough to have children that are millennials? Congrats, pillock.
Now you get it society, making cocaine illegal had a high price.
I was an engineer. I burned out at about 19 years... or did I.
For my first 18 years, I worked unbelievably hard and long hours and was still effective. I won't bother detailing it because my experience in doing so is that it truly was unbelievable. People don't believe me when I describe those years.
I loved engineering. I am a creator. Every day I still find things to create, though these days my creations are rarely technical and only for myself.
At about 17 years into my career, I made a career mistake in taking a job that I thought was going to be an exciting engineering project. When I got there, the project turned out to be vapor and I had invested too much in the move to leave.
They moved me into management and gave me a pay boost for the extra responsibility. I was good at it. Management is nothing after years of successful project management with vastly more variables. But it gave me zero joy. I tried for a bit. But it didn't feed me. Depression took over. Drinking, etc. I finally quit, and I wasn't able to go back.
I've talked with many others who "burned out". In the majority, the burnout was similar to mine. I don't think it is what most imagine. It's more a disillusionment, a betrayal, or just falling off the ship and helplessly watching it sail away with no way to catch up.
I feel that, if I hadn't made that last career move, I'd still be spending long hours creating and loving every minute of it.
I have the life now that many claim to dream of. I dream of the life I had.
I'd love to see Trump answer the question " do you think American workers should get a statutory amount of paid holiday as they do in the rest of the world."
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I mostly worked for non-technical companies where IT was seen as an expense.
And I don't want to get into specifics, but the shit they expected us to put up with was stupid. The final straw was a new and young CEO who cut my department in half while expanding our responsibilities and didn't like to see empty desks. If I got no more than an hour of sleep one night because I was making operations didn't come to a standstill, I expect to come in maybe at least an hour late the next morning.
I finally just said fuck that.
I can see why there is age discrimination. When I was younger I didn't mind working 12 hours a day for weeks at a time. I even enjoyed a lot of it. It even made me feel important. But there comes a time when you realize you're just being fucking taken advantage of and you realize you're just impotent and not important.
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Corporate Progressive nazis sure do love oppressing the working class.
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&
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It's comical that the author of that article thinks that a doctor can just take a sick day, let alone that they might do it for "burnout." How does that work? Do they cancel everyone on their schedule that day that has been waiting months to be seen for their health problems? Reschedule them for the first opening, probably in another two months? Would you be OK with that?
The only sick days I remember anyone taking recently was a guy who snapped a tendon in his leg and couldn't walk.
Doctors have to do an unbelievable amount of tedious paperwork. Not uncommon to visit a doctor and have him just announce your $name and stare at some paper while he barely makes eye contact with you.
Yeah, my country (USA) has a lot of fucked up things about it, some which make my blood boil, and we do have a long sad bloody history.
So does Germany and every single country in Europe and all countries throughout the rest of the world. Every country has skeletons in it's closet, and every country is doing some really fucked up deeds, much well hidden from the public.
"Surrender to Germany". HAHA, you're funny. I guess we couldve built the death camps in our country, and gotten rid of everyone who wasn't a white, straight, good ol' boy Christian, and the Confederate flag would be flying high nation wide. This, however would cause most people to say Do. Not. Want.
Europe is NOT better than the USA, and they can credit their higher standard of living in HUGE PART to the actions of the United States. In fact, we had to give up much of our own for you. You're fucking welcome.
So fuck you very much Europe for your foul, stuck up, "we are better than you hicks" attitude. I really hope the extremist Muslims take over Europe and have you idiots live under Sharia Law. That'll be fun! This time, we will not make the same mistake we made with Israel and the rest of the Middle East, and instead just sit back and watch the shitshow unfolding on your contenent. Any American politician that tries to get us to bail you people out will be hanging from a tree.
With all the bitching and whining you liberal tits have about work conditions, those of us on this side are pretty sure you'd rather be the mooching class.
You're only the working class because you haven't figured out a way to force the successful to totally carry your lazy ass through life. Only the threat of starvation & homelessness forces you to rise from your marijuana tainted hangover each morning