Ninety percent of employers are concerned that their employees are experiencing burnout, and for good reason. Forty-five percent of employees surveyed have experienced symptoms of burnout over the last twelve months and thirty-eight percent say their mental health and well-being has been negatively impacted by Covid-19.
Common Signs of Burnout:
- Disengaged employees
- Lower productivity or lower quality of work than normal
- Irritability
- Exhaustion
- Increase in leave requests/sick time
- Increase in stress and anxiety
- Compassion fatigue
- Increase in turnover
- Increase in errors and misunderstandings
Ways to Build Resilience & Combat Burnout in the Workplace:
- Offer flexible schedules
- Remote work opportunities and availability of office equipment to those that do work remote
- Employee Assistance Program and other benefit/wellness resources
- Encourage walking meetings and stretch breaks
- Correspondence from leadership which includes transparent communication, keeping employees informed and also reminding employees the company has genuine concern for them
- Offer guidance and resources for mindfulness, gratitude, and self care practices
- Management modeling encouraged behaviors such as taking mental breaks, getting up to stretch, setting healthy boundaries, etc.
- Mindful moment cards or emails with inspirational quotes
- Sharing success stories and overall good news from employees – celebrate each other
