November 30, 2009 – Atlanta Business News – USA
American workers are feeling increased pressure stemming from greater workloads, and many are finding themselves in the throes of burnout.
Unfortunately, by the time they realize it, the burnout has set in and is much more difficult to overcome than if it had been recognized earlier. Nobody is immune to burnout, which usually arises when the demands of work exceed the possible capacities of an individual who tries to meet the increasing demands with persistence.
Despite their best efforts, these people find themselves lifting the weight of work until they fail, completely unable to pick up another set of work-weights. At this point, they feel hopeless, dejected, cynical and unable to accept any possible intervention that could change the quality of their lives.
The earliest stages of burnout involve plastic smiles and minor forms of dissatisfaction.
This leads to the subsequent stages of a person’s work constantly getting ahead of them, and then their minds being elsewhere while at work.
People think of this as normal, when in fact they could well be in the earliest stages of burnout.
By the time they get to the fourth stage, people start to feel that their future is vague and threatening. The tiredness they feel at work leads people to become more cynical, until they start to dread the thought of going to work.
This leads to the last stage of physical and emotional exhaustion. The transition between the two is usually either so subtle that people do not notice, or so dramatic that they are overwhelmed. Read Story.
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