According to a survey carried out by the Think Institute for Great Place to Work (an organization which identifies the European environments where it is good to work), almost one in five employees say they are potentially in burnout situation (burnout) and three out of ten (31%) say they are confronted with this problem in their professional environment. Also according to this survey, among managers, the share of employees who say they are close to burnout reaches 24%.
More than half of respondents (56%) also indicate that their working conditions and management practices have changed in a negative way over the past three years, and only one in two employees say that their company takes the good – be employees.
A form of exhaustion that spares no one
This survey was conducted online last October with a representative sample of 1000 French employees from companies and administrations. But burnout spares no one since a previous study had shown that 22% of students were also at risk of burnout. A working group on the prevention of burnout was also set up last March by the Ministry of Labour. Composed of doctors and psychologists, this group must find new ways to better prevent this syndrome which affects 3 million workers. This working group is also working on the recognition of burnout as an occupational disease. For the time being, in fact, burnout can only enter into the pathologies governed by the social security code if the person affected has a permanent disability of more than 25% and if a “direct and essential link ” with the work was highlighted by a regional committee for the recognition of occupational diseases. That is only a few dozen cases recognized each year in France.
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