Illness | THESE are the key symptoms of burnout

We live in a time of massive change within the corporate world. The potentially revolutionary effects of automation and AI are already impacting the jobs markets, and an ‘always on’ culture amongst creative industries is pushing workers to breaking point as they strive to over deliver and fend off redundancy due to tech.

However, it’s obvious that as the workplace shifts and changes, the over-worked population’s blurring of work life and personal life is simply completely unsustainable. Whilst productivity is always encouraged, the line between healthy motivation and employee burnout is notoriously thin, and the consequences can be severe, and the trend of overworking is growing so much that the WHO has officially classified burnout as a medical condition.

So, what is burnout?

According to the WHO, the technical definition for burnout is: “A syndrome conceptualised as resulting from chronic workplace stress that has not been successfully managed.” It is characterised by three dimensions: