Millions of us aren’t just working from home; we’re living at work. Our work days have increased by an average of 48 minutes since the start of the pandemic. Women are taking on more work at home. Many of us, especially Millennials, are feeling unfulfilled and isolated at our jobs. The result: burnout. But burnout was a problem well before COVID-19 hit. In 2019, the World Health Organization classified burnout as an “occupational phenomenon.” The pandemic has “put a match to a workforce in drought,” says Jennifer Moss. She’s an expert on burnout and workplace well-being, an award-winning journalist, speaker, columnist, and author of Unlocking Happiness at Work and the forthcoming book, The Burnout Epidemic. Jennifer discusses the six root causes of our workplace burnout epidemic – all organizational problems that require organizational solutions. She also shares eye-opening findings from a new global study on burnout during the pandemic, and why empathy, psychological safety, and honest conversations at work are an antidote to our burnout crisis.

Listen to this episode to learn:-Advice on how organizations can start small to create big, systemic change that can combat workplace burnout-Why “self-care” and wellness apps are great for employee well-being, but they aren’t sufficient burnout prevention strategies-Industries and professions that are particularly susceptible to worker burnout (including health care and technology)-Differences in how people are affected by burnout according to gender, race, and age-How compassion fatigue, empathy fatigue, and perfectionism can lead to burnout

For more information, visit https://www.jennifer-moss.com/ and read Jennifer’s article, Beyond Burned Out, in Harvard Business Review.