The problem with workism is that it drives you to keep working until you get ultimate meaning from work — which you never will, writes TPCarney. So the root of millennial and Gen Z burnout isn’t our economy or their bosses. It’s their bad religion.
Employers, academics, and journalists are looking for the root causes of this phenomenon. Are jobs harder now? Are workers softer? Are employers less supportive?Experts told Vox that the burnout boom is rooted in “things like too much work and not enough resources, lack of acknowledgment for a job well done, and incommensurate pay.”
Surely in 2020, when workers were locked up at home with roommates, spouse, and children, everything was different. It would not be surprising if post-pandemic, between low unemployment and high uncertainty, employers are stretching workers to do more.
Millennials and Gen Z are far less likely to belong to an organized religion. Millennials and Gen Z are far less likely to be married or have children. “Workism is among the most potent of the new religions competing for congregants,” Thompson wrote. Workism is “the belief that work is not only necessary to economic production, but also the centerpiece of one’s identity and life’s purpose; and the belief that any policy to promote human welfare must always encourage more work.”
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