The Three Types of Burnout — And How to Bounce Back from Each

If you want to understand just how bad burnout can get, consider the story of Melissa Sinclair, an employee at Time Out New York. Melissa rose to internet fame in recent weeks after Time Out New York inadvertently posted an employment listing on the job-search site Indeed that detailed her current unmanageable workload. The post explains, “Currently, we have an agreed budget of $2,200 per issue for a freelance Photo Editor, 10 hours work at $22 p/h, which would normally be completely fine, however the issue is that Melissa physically cannot find good enough candidates to fill these freelance positions, and at the current rate of magazine production, she needs multiples people available to work on multiple cities, simultaneously. Because she can’t find people for these freelance positions, she’s been forced to do all of this work herself and is currently completely swamped and overwhelmed.” Unfortunately, a lot of people reading the posting can probably relate. Fifty percent of Americans say they are constantly drained by work — a figure that’s nearly tripled since 1972, according to the 2016 General Social Survey, an annual sociological survey conducted each year by the research organization NORC at the University of Chicago. The costs of burnout are huge. Left unchecked, chronic stress contributes to depression, heart disease, and autoimmune disorders. If you’ve personally experienced burnout, you know first-hand how difficult it can be to recover. Somet...
Source: World of Psychology - Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Tags: General Habits Industrial and Workplace Motivation and Inspiration Self-Help Source Type: blogs