3 Ways to Avoid Burnout
Burnout is when the gap between effort and reward is so great for so long that the people doing the effort decide to simply quit. They usually don’t quit their jobs. They show up. They look busy. They just don’t care. They’ve reached that mildly agitated and apathetic state that Peter described in the movie Office Space. That’s my only real motivation is not to be hassled, that and the fear of losing my job. But you know, Bob, that will only make someone work just hard enough not to get fired. From my experience, burnout is far more pervasive than many suspect, and it’s far more damaging than anyone realizes. I watch burnout put a company out of business years after the burnout happened. I reached a conclusion about that incident that has yet to be challenged by experience: once burnout strikes an employee, that employee’s ruined for that employer. In other words, the