Engagement and burnout

Engaged employees! Is there nothing better?

When we’re engaged, we are focused. We are more productive. We’re in the zone.

But…

A recent study highlighted by HBR noted that highly-engaged employees are in danger of burning out.

However, the data also showed that one out of five employees reported both high engagement and high burnout. We’ll call this group the engaged-exhausted group. These engaged-exhausted workers were passionate about their work, but also had intensely mixed feelings about it — reporting high levels of interest, stress, and frustration. While they showed desirable behaviors such as high skill acquisition, these apparent model employees also reported the highest turnover intentions in our sample — even higher than the unengaged group.

 

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