The World Health Organization defined burnout in 2019 as a workplace phenomenon, and since then many countries around the world came together to create a new international standard for protecting workers from burnout (ISO 45003). In this standard there is a lot more detail about what occurs in workplaces and risks that exist to people’s mental health and wellbeing. It is the organisation’s job to minimise or eliminate those risks as far as is reasonably practical.
It is YOUR responsibility to identify if your people are burnt out or just exhausted. That’s where we fit in. It’s what we do, all day, every day. Work with leaders like YOU.
You can’t abdicate your responsibilities to another leader in your workplace and hope they’ve got it covered. Or simply download the Code of Practice and hope that’s enough. Or cross your fingers and hope that in the future you can come up with a solution for burnout whilst you put your head in the sand today!