Wellbeing | Millennials built start-up to prevent burnout

Younger workers are no strangers to high-stress and huge workloads. Presenteeism is alive and well in the workplace and this is backed by stats.

According to research conducted by High Speed Training, ­over 70% of workers claim to have experienced issues with being shackled to their desk at least once, while 44% stated being subject to it semi-regularly. With the increased fear of redundancy amid Brexit-related concerns, the snowballing trend of automation and the increasing ‘robots may take my job’ fear factor, workers are continuing to fight for their careers.

What does this lead to? Burnout.

The media furore over the legitimation of the condition known as ‘burnout’ by the World Health Organisation (WHO) has called to light a serious issue. Now that burnout has an official technical definition, which very much confirms that it’s a work-based issue, more and more employees are realising that it applies to them.