Celebrating Mental Health Awareness Month Can Help Fight Increasing Employee Burnout

Feeling exhausted, having no energy, decreasing professional performance and increasing mental distance from one’s job — these are all symptoms of burnout, which employees everywhere are increasingly experiencing. As the Mayo Clinic explains, job burnout "is a special type of work-related stress — a state of physical or emotional exhaustion that also involves a sense of reduced accomplishment and loss of personal identity."

While burnout is not considered a medical condition, it can negatively affect someone’s physical and mental health. Physically, someone experiencing burnout can experience frequent headaches, chronic muscle pain and disturbed sleep, among other symptoms, and burnout can