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Taboo talk. Addressing burnout—for which online searches reached a record high in May—means first understanding what causes it and then creating a safe environment for employees to share their experiences with it. Even then, discussions about burnout can be difficult to have. One contributor to burnout is a perceived lack of control, which can lead to learned helplessness. Asking how the organization might redesign work to give employees more flexibility in accomplishing goals could help. [HBR]

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The caring crisis. Nurses, teachers, and childcare workers—caring professions that may often involve some level of self-sacrificing behaviors—face a burnout crisis of their own. Nine in ten nurses in the US say they are considering quitting their jobs, adding to the 300,000 nurses who have already left in recent years. US public-school vacancies have reached 40,000, and there are about 100,000 fewer workers in childcare. Meanwhile, conditions for these positions are worsening, with increased incidents of violence on the jobs. [Atlantic]

“Burnout rates are continuing to increase, despite many organizations committing to this, making it a C-suite priority, and trying to find ways to support employees.”

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No words. Burnout is a condition plaguing people across the world, according to a McKinsey Health Institute (MHI) survey of 15,000 employees in 15 countries. But where people’s experiences differ is based on the cultural context around burnout. For example, in translating the McKinsey survey to local languages, researchers discovered that there may not always be a word that relates to mental health at work, showing one way that stigmas may exist in communities, McKinsey partner and MHI coleader Erica Coe explains.

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Holistic health. While employers are investing in employee wellness, burnout rates continue to rise, which suggests that the root causes of burnout—such as toxic workplace behavior or corporate culture—are left unaddressed. In taking a company-wide approach to fighting burnout, businesses have a better chance of tackling toxicity in the workplace, which is the biggest driver of burnout, our survey reveals. Find out what other strategies—such as destigmatizing the mental-health conversation—are effective in reducing burnout.

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