Do you feel burned out with your work situation in the pandemic? Here are some expert tips
News 12 Staff
Updated on:Apr 27, 2021, 10:14am EDT
This morning, News 12 s Elizabeth Hashagen was joined by Julia Lamm, the global workforce strategy leader at PWC, and Dr. Michael Leiter, a a world-renowned expert on the psychology of work, to talk about work burnout.
A year of uncertainty and stress, and for many nonstop work, has left many people feeling a state of chronic exhaustion, overwhelming fatigue and loss of motivation.
The issue of burnout existed before the pandemic, and it will exist long after the pandemic passes. But it seems as though COVID-19 exacerbated it.
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Christina Maslach has conducted pioneering research on burnout for over three decades.
She said pandemic-induced burnout should serve as a wake-up call to corporate America.
Organizations need to enlist their employees to help them uncover better ways of working, she said.
Early in her career in the 1970s, when Christina Maslach was starting out as a psychologist, she was doing research in human services where she d interview healthcare workers and teachers about their jobs. She noticed a pattern: Many of the people she spoke with told her they felt exhausted and utterly drained of energy. They felt a gnawing cynicism about their work and a deep sense of personal inefficacy.
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Question: I’ve been watching the news and allegations about the treatment of women in Parliament and started thinking about how it would apply if I ever saw something like this in my own workplace. I agree with many commentators that if we want to stop disgusting behaviour from continuing, we must call it out.
I also think that for many it’s either daunting, terrifying, dangerous or a futile exercise.
Are there legitimate alternatives to “calling out” the worst kinds of sexism and foul behaviour when it’s done by men with cultural strength, or is standing up to bullies the only way?
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