USAToday: Burnout Up At Work

[Brigid]

The country's prolonged economic stagnation is taking its toll on workers.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2012/10/23/stress-burnout-employees/1651897/

[liberalmuse]

1. We're all burnt out at my job.

For the reasons stated in the article. Thanks for posting!

[marions ghost]

2. Do the Rethug business geniuses care?...nah

"You can't have massive restructuring and reductions in force without having the workload become a massive issue," Ray says. "Until they're hiring again and bringing some additional capacity into the workplace, we're going to see a continuation of feelings of burnout that we see now."

Psychologist Ben Palmer is global CEO and founder of Genos International, a consulting firm that focuses on emotional intelligence and employee engagement. He says the current state of global competition means that Western nations in particular are unsuccessfully trying to compete with cheap labor in countries such as China and India.

"The more you adopt the 'do more with less' mentality, the greater you drive innovation down in the organization because high workloads and stress are the antithesis of innovation," Palmer says.

The economic situation is "not as temporary as many of us would have hoped," Ray says. "What we might have thought was perhaps a temporary aberration now seems to look like the new normal."

(~ usa today article cited above)