Evan CarmichaelSpeaker / Author / Introvert

You’re Fighting Burnout the WRONG Way | Build REAL Connections

16 Jan 2024 · 1 min

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In this monologue, the speaker argues that workplace burnout is driven primarily by social isolation rather than job difficulty. Citing research that employees who have at least one close friend at work are more likely to love their job, the speaker shares a practice from their own organization, Mosaic, where a dedicated staff member’s sole responsibility is to foster community among employees. The speaker emphasizes that hard work can feel exhilarating when accompanied by friendships, while even easy tasks can become overwhelming when one feels alone, positioning loneliness as the core factor behind burnout.

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Most people are burned out at work not because the job is hard, but because they have no friends. In fact, I think most of the studies show that people love their job if they have one good friend at work. And even in our community at Mosaic, one of the things I talk about all the time is, I mean, I have a person on our team whose entire responsibility is to make sure that everyone's living in community on the staff, and that's his principal job. Because I, I know that hard work can actually be exhilarating if you feel you have friends, and easy work can feel overwhelming if you're all alone. So I don't, you know, I mean, I don't know the whole dynamic, but I would say burnout has nothing to do with how hard the job is but how alone she feels.