Burnout and Culture Change

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There's an intersection here between the burnout that we were talking about earlier and some of the culture change or how to change an organization. I feel like so often the cause of burnout is feeling like a lack of agency in what you're doing. Some companies are desperately trying to return to what was the status quo before the pandemic. And I think those companies are really struggling.

What does "burnout" even mean anymore? If you're asking yourself this question, you've come to the right podcast. Anne Helen Petersen is the writer who helped popularize the term and she thinks people are missing the big picture. In this episode, Anne Helen and Chris discuss the structures that are leading so many people, from nurses to teachers to office workers, to suffer from chronic, work-related stress. Then, Anne Helen suggests some of the ways that we can rethink our relationship to work – and offers practices that could protect us from laboring past our limits. For the full text transcript, visit go.ted.com/BHTranscripts