Overwhelmed & fatigued | 98% of HR pros feel burned out, survey warns

A new survey has revealed that a whopping 98% of HR professionals are burned out, fatigued and struggling with work pressures.

Carried out by workplace communication app Workvivo, the survey of 520 HR professionals in the UK and USA demonstrated that workplace burnout is an endemic problem for the people function.

94% of HR professionals said they felt overwhelmed in the past six months, while 88% of respondents said they dreaded work.

The pandemic and the Great Resignation have piled pressure onto HR departments, who have found themselves under-resourced and overwhelmed as they’ve struggled to juggle the transition first to remote and then to hybrid working, with all the changes to tech, processes and staffing that goes along with that. The pandemic also meant that staff required much more support from HR departments, emotionally as well as practically. Add to that the challenges of finding and retaining staff in an ever-tightening labour market, and you have the perfect HR storm.