Archive for March, 2012
A Productivity Plan for Accomplishing What Matters Most
By: Jenn Vargas Following a few years of following the traditional post-college career path, I decided to strike out on my own and build Accompl.sh full-time. It’s been a bit of a roller coaster of emotions, productivity, success and failure, and it has helped me to better understand what I need to do to keep myself on task. [...]
How Google’s Marissa Mayer Manages Burnout
By: Joseph Walker Burnout isn’t the result of too much work. It’s the result of not getting what you want. So says Google Vice President Marissa Mayer, 36, the company’s first female software engineer and its 20th employee when she joined the company in 1999. In her first five years at Google, she pulled at [...]
4 things to do NOW to get Summer Fridays in July
By: Amy Levin-Epstein As March comes to a close and Spring brings with it warmer, longer days, it’s natural to start thinking of spending time outdoors with friends and family, and wanting to make the most out of your weekends. That’s where Summer Fridays come in, if your company can swing them. Last summer, this [...]
Extinguish Burnout
By: Susan Fenner I always used to think that burnout happened when you worked too hard for too long without any respite. It was the physical, mental, and emotional exhaustion that resulted. In the past, we’ve all experienced bouts of burnout that might have been cyclic, seasonal, or occasional. But lately, many of us have [...]
Burnout: the topic your boss doesn’t want to talk about
By Harvey Schachter Burnout is an issue that business prefers not to talk about, despite the toll it can take in the workplace. Executives are eager to discuss employee engagement: Getting employees more excited about their work. But burnout, caused when employees are exhausted, overwhelmed, and ticked off with their work, isn’t a topic for [...]
Burnout rates among healthcare professionals high in Turkey
By: İPEK ÜZÜM A recent study conducted by the Health and Social Services Employee’s Union (Sağlık-Sen) has revealed that the rates of professional burnout are high among healthcare professionals in Turkey. The Sağlık-Sen study report was released on the occasion of Medicine Day, which celebrates healthcare workers in Turkey every year on March 14. The [...]
Work burnout tied to “emotional eating” in women: study
(Reuters) – Women who are fed up with their jobs may be more likely to turn to food for comfort in times of stress, according to a Finnish study. The study, reported in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, found that those who reported work burnout were also more likely to have a habit of [...]
B.C. Nurses union head calls for the hiring of 2,000 more nurses to battle burnout
BY KENT SPENCER, THE PROVINCE The B.C. Nurses Union, whose contract is set to expire on March 31, wants the provincial government to hire 2,000 more nurses as part of reaching a settlement. “Unless our employer has their head firmly up their butts, they can’t help but notice the crisis in health care,” said union [...]
IT Security Professionals Are Facing Burnout Risk
By David Gibson Regarding reports from last week’s RSA 2012 event that IT security professionals have a high risk of burnout, the use of cost-effective data governance technology – most notably in the area of unstructured data – can go a long way towards reducing the stress of staff and so avoid the burnout of [...]
Course of mental symptoms in patients with stress-related exhaustion: Does sex or age make a difference?
Long-term sick leave due to mental health problems, especially among women, is a substantial problem in many countries, and a major reason for this is thought to be psychosocial stress. The recovery period of different patient groups with stress-related mental health problems can differ considerably. We have studied the course of mental health symptoms during [...]
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