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>all of the language in this article (until #8) is centered around you. You are supposed to take full responsibility for burnout. It is your choice. Your lack o

>all of the language in this article (until #8) is centered around you. You are supposed to take full responsibility for burnout. It is your choice. Your lack of self-management is causing your burnout. Yes, this! My company seems to be halfway there: acknowledging that burnout is a problem, but then turning that into helpful advice (eat healthy, take breaks, go work out, etc) that is focused on the individual, ignoring cultural factors and the total amount of work that gets taken on and needs to be done by X people in Y time.

shams93 7y ago
Yeah if you're asking people to do 20 hours work for 8 hours pay no amount of healthy advice can undo the damage done by a culture of unpaid triple time as the norm. After the 2008 downturn it got very easy to find labor and thus you could really over work people to a brutal level and not care. Now that the economy is slowing down you can expect a lot of employers to become more abusive as employees become a dime a dozen.
Ididntdothis 7y ago
Yeah. It's like overloading people constantly and then offering mediation classes so people can cope.
- pdpi 7y ago
  "Your lung infection is not my fault because the office is filthy, it's your own fault for not taking your antibiotics"
- wojciii 7y ago
  Wait .. this is exactly what my workplace is doing. I didn't attend the meditation because they clashed with my therapeutic daily walk..
  - Ididntdothis 7y ago
    My meditation teacher told me that the result of meditation shouldn’t be to tolerate BS but instead realizing that it is BS and changing things.
connor4312 7y ago
+1. This past year by workplace has become much more stressful. I've consciously spent more time on self care and exercise (definitely good habits which made me feel better about myself physically and mentally). But that only served to slow the process of burnout; we needed organizational change to remedy the root cause.

shams93 7y ago

Yeah if you're asking people to do 20 hours work for 8 hours pay no amount of healthy advice can undo the damage done by a culture of unpaid triple time as the norm. After the 2008 downturn it got very easy to find labor and thus you could really over work people to a brutal level and not care. Now that the economy is slowing down you can expect a lot of employers to become more abusive as employees become a dime a dozen.

Ididntdothis 7y ago

Yeah. It's like overloading people constantly and then offering mediation classes so people can cope.

pdpi 7y ago
"Your lung infection is not my fault because the office is filthy, it's your own fault for not taking your antibiotics"
wojciii 7y ago
Wait .. this is exactly what my workplace is doing. I didn't attend the meditation because they clashed with my therapeutic daily walk..
- Ididntdothis 7y ago
  My meditation teacher told me that the result of meditation shouldn’t be to tolerate BS but instead realizing that it is BS and changing things.

connor4312 7y ago

+1. This past year by workplace has become much more stressful. I've consciously spent more time on self care and exercise (definitely good habits which made me feel better about myself physically and mentally). But that only served to slow the process of burnout; we needed organizational change to remedy the root cause.