Key points

Burnout has very little to do with motivation.

Small, sustainable shifts in workload, boundaries, and resources can begin reversing burnout.

Research shows that burnout is a systemic problem, not a personal one.

Burnout is an occupational hazard that thrives in high-pressure workplaces. And despite what endless wellness trends suggest, burnout isn’t solved with spa days, gratitude lists, or even better time management . Burnout isn’t the result of unmotivated or incapable people; it emerges when job demands consistently outweigh the resources available to meet them, a dynamic extensively documented in Job Demands–Resources Theory (Bakker & Demerouti, 2007).

When high demands are placed on workers with inadequate resources, the mismatch is what produces the emotional ex

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