What is burnout?

It is probably the first time that burnout was described by the psychologist Herbert Freudenberger, who first conducted research and then published a research paper describing this phenomenon in 1974. Now, on September 14, we celebrate the International Burnout Day.

Burnout is a problem affecting more and more employees. Burnout was previously classified as an occupational syndrome that significantly affects health. However, as early as 2019, the World Health Organization (WHO) decided that burnout would be recognized as a disease and included in the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD). The list is updated periodically and the new version of ICD-11 will enter into force on January 1, 2022, which means that people with symptoms of burnout will be able to receive a sick leave from the new year.

Burnout is a long-term process whose main causes are chronic stress, excessive fatigue, and setting yourself too high. The three-dimensional theory of burnout by Christina Maslach is most often used to diagnose the symptoms of burnout, according to which this disease consists of three elements:

  • physical: feeling exhausted or exhausted,
  • emotional: depressed mood, negative feelings or indifference manifested by cynical and devoid of empathy behaviour,
  • behavioural: reduced professional performance, lower self-esteem and feeling that everything you do is pointless or not good enough.

It is said that the most vulnerable to burnout are people working in professions requiring close interpersonal contacts, such as psychologists, psychiatrists, doctors, nurses, teachers, social workers, policemen, officials and people working in close and direct contact with the client. But in fact, burnout can affect anyone. According to a study by Kronos Incorporated and Future Workplace, burnout is influenced by the following factors:

  • inadequate remuneration (41%),
  • work overload (32%),
  • overtime (32%),
  • ineffective management in the company (30%),
  • no relationship between the role of the employee and the company’s strategy (29%),
  • low work culture (26%)

Source: https://kadry.infor.pl/bhp/choroby-zawodowe/5326306,Wypalenie-zawodowe-podstawa-zwolnienia-lekarskiego-od-2022-r.html

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