A talk on workplace burnout that argues isolation, not workload, is the real problem. The speaker emphasizes how social connections at work matter more than how hard the job is.
A talk on workplace burnout that argues isolation, not workload, is the real problem. The speaker emphasizes how social connections at work matter more than how hard the job is.
Most people are burned out at work, not because their 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 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. 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.
