How Burnout Affects Employee Experience & Workplace Culture
Burnout has significant impacts on businesses. It often leads to increased healthcare costs and chronic ongoing health issues, which can further lead to increased employee turnover. It can also negatively impact the workplace culture that you’ve spent years building, including:
Employee Engagement
Teamwork
Productivity
Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging
When an employee is experiencing stress and burnout at work, they want support and resources to help them move past it. When they don’t feel supported, it can decrease their motivation and productivity at work. When one person is experiencing a decline in motivation due to burnout, the whole team and their goals are impacted. If you observe close enough, you can see the ripple effect through the office as it starts to impact everyone.
You might be thinking… “How can I create a supportive environment that helps combat burnout before it impacts my employees?” One method is to help employees find their sense of purpose and belonging within the workplace. According to the American Psychological Association, there are a total of five interconnected domains related to this. They are:
Employee Involvement
Work-life Integration
Employee Growth and Development
Employee Recognition
Health & Safety
When you are able to provide employees with tools to help them activate their sense of purpose, it can help to reduce burnout. A sense of meaning & purpose at work also directly impacts employees’ motivation and productivity.
How can you tell if burnout is impacting your team? Read more <here> about how to recognize burnout.
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