Employers Do Not Learn from the Burnouts of Employees

By: Together Abroad 29-05-2017 11:04 AM
Categories: * Daily employment news,

In most cases, employers do not learn from the burnouts of employees. They are interested in what the employee needs during the burnout, but not how to prevent burnouts, according to research by Kantar Public on behalf of insurer Silver Cross.

33% Positive

The survey shows that only 33% of respondents indicate that their employer has learned something about their burnout. The researchers think employers are missing self-reflection.

They see burnouts especially as incidents and not something that can be prevented by working differently.

Something to Do

While that can certainly help, Professor of Occupational and Organisational Psychology Arnold Bakker thinks: “The employee gets a coach, for example, goes on a mindfulness course, all focusing on better dealing with stress, while it is usually something about the work and the circumstances inside the organisation that must change to prevent new burnouts”.

Bakker gives examples like giving employees more freedom, more variety or more feedback.

Those burnouts are often a sensitive subject, as well as the fact that many employees do not dare to discuss it with their boss. About 30% of ex-burn-out patients do not, or hardly, deal with the supervisor.

According to Bakker, people are afraid that their position will be at stake.


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