No pain, no gain? You snooze, you lose? You’ll bend, but you won’t break? These slogans are thrown around a lot, but is there a better way?
Burnout comes from trying to persevere past the body's limits. Plowing away at work in the office ‘til 9PM won’t do your productivity or your health any good. The body needs rest to reset.
Burnout is the result of unhealthy patterns.
The WHO recognized burnout as a medical condition when they added it to the International Classification of Diseases.(1) According to a Gallup survey of nearly 7,500 employees, 23% of them report feeling burnout at work "very often or always", while an additional 44% reported feeling it "sometimes".
If that's not enough, the health risks can be severe. People experiencing burnout are 23% more likely to visit the emergency room.(2)
It's a hard way to go, and a hard cycle to break.
At Silentmode, we've been working on a way to fight back. All we do is breathe.