Worth Reading – We Asked 9 Burnout Experts Their Secrets to Protecting Mental Health at Work—and They All Said the Same Thing
I don’t relish criticizing other articles, but this one was begging for it.
Not for the content itself, but for waving past this:
These aren’t character flaws, the experts emphasize—they’re warning signs. “Most of the people I see are not burned out because they are unmotivated or doing something wrong,” Dr. Chase explains. “They’re burned out because they’ve been operating without enough protection for far too long.”
She continues: “The people who stay well in the long term are not the ones who push harder or optimize more. They’re the ones who learn to honor their limits early, before burnout forces the issue.”
This article gathers input from multiple experts and continues for 28 paragraphs without once mentioning the employers’ expectation that we do all the things they tell us not to do.
It’s all well and good to point out that setting boundaries, saying no, ending our work day on time, etc., are good ways to avoid burnout. It’s another thing entirely for many of us to have that option in the first place.
Let’s examine that statement about operating without enough protection again. Who is responsible for the protection? Sure, we should take some responsibility for not protecting our time, but when the job demands we do that very thing, that’s an employer failing to protect the people who work for them.
Where’s that part of the article?
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