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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 [...]
Workaholism May Not Be So Bad
A recent study finds that workaholics who love their work — instead of workaholics who feels a compulsion to work — may be healthier than previous researchers have believed. Engaged workaholics do not apparently suffer the burnout or stress found in the more “classic” type of workaholic, they say. By Kristen B. Frasch By now, in [...]
Unlimited Vacation Doesn’t Create Slackers–It Ensures Productivity
BY LYDIA DISHMAN By tossing the two-week standard in favor of an honor system with unlimited time off, some companies are seeing an exponential rise in productivity. Now, they just have to be mindful of staff burnout. Sharon Rosenblatt confesses she suffers from self-diagnosed workplace paranoia–and even her company’s unrestricted vacation policy sometimes (negatively) affects her [...]
How to prevent professional burnout and deal with it at work, relationships, and life in general
If you have found yourself dreading going to the office, if you might describe yourself as “having a short fuse”, if you feel an exhaustion that defies description, if you feel bored to tears, if you find that one day is so much like another that they all seem blurry…you might be suffering from burnout. [...]
Dealing With Burnout in the Workplace
By Logan Baker We’ve all seen it and some of us have even experienced it. When an employer expects humans to perform like a robot they put them in danger of burnout. It starts out with feeling overwhelmed, then you overwork to try and manage an impossible workload. The stresstakes a toll on the body and [...]
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