Workplace Burnout When working feels very tiring

Workplace Burnout

When working feels very tiring

Work can indeed be very tiring and draining all of your time and energy. As a result, stress is inevitable. Not only ordinary stress, pressure from work can actually bring health problems called burnout syndrome. Burnout is a term that is often spoken by many people these days. Especially the millennial and generation Z workers. Anyone can experience burnout, whether they are students, housewives or workers.

Burnout is a condition in which a person experiences physical, emotional and mental exhaustion caused by excessive and prolonged stress. This condition can make a person lose motivation or enthusiasm to do his job.

What's the difference between burnout and ordinary stress?

Ordinary stress, generally occurs in the short term due to certain conditions. For example, when facing exam week, surely you will be more stressed than usual. But, once the exam week is over, the stress slowly diminishes and even disappears.

If burnout, the stress lasts for a long time or prolonged. There may be feelings of hopelessness, apathy, or emptiness. If you compare it to exam week, for burnout people, every day for several months is a tense and stressful exam week.

Burnout features

Lost motivation

When experiencing burnout, you will lose motivation or enthusiasm for work. You see work as stressful and frustrating.

Constantly feeling tired

One of the most common signs of burnout is constantly feeling tired or exhausted. This tired feeling is different from the tiredness that is often felt and usually lasts a long time or is prolonged. This fatigue is not only physical but also emotional exhaustion. You don't have the energy to get up early and go to work.

Easily hurt

Excessive and prolonged stress can make your immune system decrease, as a result you get sick more easily

Unstable emotion

Burnout makes your mood changeable and tends to be more sensitive. For example, at first you feel happy, then suddenly you feel sad and irritable. These emotional changes certainly affect your work and communication with other co-workers.

Decreased productivity

When you experience prolonged stress and fatigue, you will have difficulty focusing and feel you don't have enough energy to get the job done.

How to overcome burnout

1. Get enough rest and sleep

2. Do light exercise

3. Set boundaries

4. Do fun activities

5. Manage time and priorities

6. Learn to delegate tasks