Permanent exhaustion, a growing feeling of frustration and boredom at work – these symptoms may indicate burnout syndrome. The state of professional frustration blocks the body and leads to a loss of motivation. However, there are ways that help you take control of your emotions so that this professional frustration does not arise again.

Frustration is the state of unsatisfied certain needs. For most people, unsatisfied needs in the professional sphere are associated with low pay. However, as experts point out, a good salary is not everything, the employee expects many other needs to be met. He wants to be appreciated at work for his competence, he wants to have an impact on decision-making, he wants to feel safe. The guarantee of a permanent contract, predictable tasks, training, and good organization – this contributes to job satisfaction, but not only. The employees are different. For some, job satisfaction means the possibility of variability, challenges, adrenaline, stimulation and contacts

The reason for the emergence of professional frustration is everyday problems at work, which over time become more and more burdensome, causing chronic stress. If his condition is small or medium, the employee feels mobilized to act, but if it is high – there is burnout, panic and professional frustration.

Report from 2021 entitled „Mental health in the workplace” developed as part of the campaign „Understanding. feel. Work!” by the Employers of Poland and the ArteMis Group, in cooperation with the Content Partner Instytut One – Zdrowie i Harmonia – indicated that 85 percent. of respondents believe that professional burnout is a big social problem.

Frustration is inextricably linked to stress. The more stressed we are, the more often professional frustration appears in our lives. Here’s what causes frustration:

• Improper flow of information – the employee does not know what to do or finds out too late, he misses important information, important documents do not reach him. He is nervous because everything is not his fault, and unfortunately he suffers the consequences.
• Too many tasks – the employee gets tasks for several people. He keeps staying overtime to meet deadlines, he brings work home, he can’t rest, you’re tired and overworked.
• No specific purpose – works, but does not really know what for. Performs various actions, more or less interesting; knows no purpose or meaning. The lack of a specific goal affects motivation and efficiency, and as a result leads to frustration.
• Not taking into account the opinion – the employee tries to push through his idea, which would definitely make his work easier, but the management assumes in advance that he is wrong, only the opinion of his superiors is binding.
• Too easy or too difficult tasks – the employee performs tasks much below the level of his competence or on the contrary (they are too difficult and he cannot cope). No one listens to him when he reports that this is the case and that it slows down his work or makes him less productive.
• Monotony – performing the same, monotonous and repetitive work every day makes the employee do the tasks automatically, he is tired, burnt out and annoyed.
• Incorrect evaluation – the employee is evaluated for something over which he has absolutely no influence. It also happens that no comments are made about his work, and on the employee appraisal he finds out how badly he performs it. There are no rules for providing feedback from superiors, which affects the level of tasks performed by the employee.
• Bad working atmosphere – the reason is mainly gossip, everyone talks behind their backs, conflicts arise or, on the contrary, no one talks to each other. The employer looks with an unfavorable eye. The atmosphere at work becomes unbearable – coming to work becomes an effort.

There are effective ways to stop or counteract professional frustration. All you need is good will and commitment on the part of the person concerned.

• Don’t be afraid of failure – to err is human. The most important thing is learning from mistakes. Something went wrong, we now know what to do to prevent it from happening again.
• Conversation with the employer – when we feel that contacts with the boss are poor, we have the impression that he does not like us – it is worth asking for an interview during which you will tell him about your concerns. Find out if something is going on and if you can do something about it.
• Rewarding yourself – if work is something unpleasant for us, but we have to come to it, it’s good to try to find something positive. One of them may be a reward for a successful day of work – when the entrusted task was successfully completed. The reward can be anything that gives us pleasure.
• Margin of error – in planning work, you should allow yourself a margin of error. Thanks to this, the frustration that we failed to complete all the tasks again will not concern us.
• Set goals – in order to see the meaning of our tasks, we should set a goal to which we will strive. This makes every job meaningful.

In 2019, the World Health Organization (WHO) approved burnout as an official medical diagnosis by entering it into the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11). This means that specialists will be able to issue a sick leave to people diagnosed with occupational burnout.

In Poland, as of today, employees cannot count on this type of exemption – work on the implementation is still underway (including the translation of ICD-11 into Polish).

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