Burnout

Burnout in the work culture that we live in today can be described in the form of dry and metaphors of emptiness.  Burnout can affect any normal professional employee that is working in any organization.  Burnout is very wrapped around the delusion of that an employee is over worked but in actuality is a “crisis of self efficiency.” (Senior) That long wait in between expectations and rewards can make an employee go insane.  If someone is expending so much energy for something and getting little achievement for their actions this will cause them to burnout and give up.  According to a sociologist “our obsession with efficiency at work has unfortunately seeped into our attitudes toward leisure, with the multitasking of our downtime as the loony and paradoxical result. We run on the treadmill while listening to music while watching TV. We cook while flipping through a magazine while yakking on the phone. All of which raises a question: If our leisure isn’t restorative, aren’t we more apt to burn out?” (Senior)  The affects that multitasking can have on employees in an organization needs be recognized so that burnout for no reason happens.  Employees need to use their down time effectively so that multitasking will not affect their work with in the organization.  Employees need to learn that even though that they are off work the choices that they make will transition back into the results of the energy that  they put into something.  The culture that we live in today tries to take on a boat load of work and expect quick results and end up putting themselves in a position that they say overwork, but is ultimately a result of energy in to something with little achievement.

References:

Senior, Jennifer. “Can’t Get No Satisfaction; In a culture where work can be a religion, burnout is its crisis of faith..” New York Magazine. 04 Dec 2006: n. page. Print.