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Podcast: Leadership Article Review Podcast
Episode: The Rising Tide of Burnout: Strategies for Combatting Workplace Stress, by Jonathan H. Westover PhD
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Abstract: This article examines how burnout has become normalized in contemporary workplace culture, analyzing its systemic causes and organizational impacts. It explores three key contributing factors: the rise of constant connectivity through digital technologies that eliminate work-life boundaries, performance-oriented cultures that breed chronic stress through metrics and comparison, and the blurring of professional and personal domains that prevents psychological detachment essential for recovery. The article demonstrates how these normalized patterns not only harm employee wellbeing but also undermine organizational performance through increased absenteeism, turnover, and diminished creativity. Rather than accepting burnout as inevitable, the authors propose evidence-based preventive strategies...