Burnout on the job is on the rise, to the point where companies have farmed out their workers' well-being to employee assistance programs, where stress and anxiety are cited in 70% of incoming calls.. Job stress, burnout on the rise layoffs, long hours taking their toll on workers household with two working parents or single parent households are especially vulnerable to burnout from work. Companies are facing an employee burnout crisis: a recent gallup study of nearly 7,500 full-time employees found that 23 percent of employees reported feeling burned out at work very often or.
She says burnout is on the rise, and it’s not surprising. “people are doing more work than ever. if you look at work-life balance, we’re spending five weeks less per year with our family than we were 20 years ago.”. Stress and burnout related to the increasing pace and intensity of work are on the rise globally. a survey of over 100 000 employees across asia, europe, africa, north america and south america found that stress, anxiety and depression in employees accounted for 82.6% of all emotional health cases in employee assistance programmes in 2014—up from 55.2% in 2012.. My editor at cnbc.com recently asked me to write a story about how employee burnout is on the rise.. as a contributor to the site's modern medicine section, i write interesting and timely stories about health—but i don't usually write about work issues. i accepted the challenge. it didn't take me long to realize that the word "burnout" is not reserved for the workplace..