{"id":7971,"date":"2025-02-05T14:11:14","date_gmt":"2025-02-05T14:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brightmine.com\/us\/?post_type=resources&p=7971"},"modified":"2025-04-03T14:43:32","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T14:43:32","slug":"preventing-employee-burnout-employers-must-take-the-lead","status":"publish","type":"resources","link":"https:\/\/www.brightmine.com\/us\/resources\/talent-management\/employee-engagement\/preventing-employee-burnout-employers-must-take-the-lead\/","title":{"rendered":"Preventing employee burnout: Employers must take the lead"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Employers must take the lead to fight burnout<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Employee burnout can damage your talent strategy and productivity. Learn about the the conditions that lead to employee burnout and effective preventative measures.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Published: February 5, 2025 | by Victoria Kelleher<\/strong>, SHRM-CP<\/strong>, Lead Survey Specialist at Brightmine<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The best employees tend to work hard to meet an employer’s expectations, but there can be consequences if expectations in the workplace are beyond what is reasonably achievable. Some employees find themselves driven into burnout, a state of stress-induced physical or mental exhaustion that prevents workers from operating at their best.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Burnout in the workplace has been on the rise. Recent survey data<\/a> has estimated that 65% of employees experienced burnout in 2023 alone, and nearly three in four admit that burnout has affected their performance at work in the past.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Employees experiencing burnout can find it difficult or impossible to work through the exhaustion burnout causes. Depleted energy often results in plummeting productivity<\/a>, heightened absenteeism, and a higher likelihood of mistakes. If burnout is pushed to an extreme, it might even cause an employee to leave an organization to try to escape the stress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When such a phenomenon is widespread across an organization, its negative effects might ripple across a business to affect its function, its performance, and even its reputation. It is vital that employers understand the conditions that precipitate burnout in employees so that steps can be taken to prevent it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Burnout in the workplace<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

All too often, burnout is treated as though it is a personal failure. Employers may assume that burnout is a result of problems in an employee’s personal life or maladaptive personality traits, such as perfectionism or a tendency to overextend oneself. They may conclude that the solution is to direct affected employees toward wellness resources like Employee Assistance Programs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although this may be true in some cases, burnout can also be precipitated by factors that are caused by the workplace itself. Before assuming that employees are to blame for a decline in performance, employers should carefully evaluate whether there are problems at their organizations that cause employees to become overwhelmed with stress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The following graphic shows how the major causes of burnout might be embedded in an employee’s workflow:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Causes of burnout at work<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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