
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or


On this week’s Life Examined, how health organizations and employers are recognizing that workplace burnout is a real and growing problem. In 2019 the World Health Organization officially identified workplace burnout as an “occupational phenomenon.” Today burnout is reaching epidemic proportions and many employees say the pandemic has made the problem worse. Host Jonathan Bastian talks with burnout expert and author of “The Burnout Epidemic” Jennifer Moss about why overwork has reached epidemic proportions and what employers can do about it. We also hear from Sebastian Cruz, a former hedge fund employee, who says overwork forced him to not only to quit his job but shift careers.
 By KCRW
By KCRW4.9
301301 ratings
On this week’s Life Examined, how health organizations and employers are recognizing that workplace burnout is a real and growing problem. In 2019 the World Health Organization officially identified workplace burnout as an “occupational phenomenon.” Today burnout is reaching epidemic proportions and many employees say the pandemic has made the problem worse. Host Jonathan Bastian talks with burnout expert and author of “The Burnout Epidemic” Jennifer Moss about why overwork has reached epidemic proportions and what employers can do about it. We also hear from Sebastian Cruz, a former hedge fund employee, who says overwork forced him to not only to quit his job but shift careers.

38,453 Listeners

43,570 Listeners

577 Listeners

5,097 Listeners

10,739 Listeners

10,536 Listeners

1,282 Listeners

612 Listeners

664 Listeners

1,848 Listeners

1,106 Listeners

10,247 Listeners

388 Listeners

12,749 Listeners

2,503 Listeners

152 Listeners

730 Listeners

499 Listeners

390 Listeners

14,380 Listeners

26 Listeners

2,048 Listeners

1,086 Listeners