We know that the pandemic has slowed down progress on closing the gender wage gap, but it is also creating a new gap that compounds that failure?
, Senior Health Reporter for INSIDER. “But even people who haven’t experienced a significant change in how or how much they work can be burnt out. Demanding the same amount of employees given all that’s going on - much of which employers have no idea about - is often unrealistic,” she said.
The stealth driver of burnout might be one that predates the pandemic. Both Medaris Miller and Dr. O’Neill agree: the largest cause of burnout is not taking paid time off. Dr. O’Neill points to the research of, also at George Mason University. “It's been more difficult to take vacations because you can't go abroad, and you can't travel. So the existing problem has just been exacerbated, and I think that's very much contributing to burnout,” said Dr. O’Neill.
So what’s the first solution? Take your paid time off, particularly as the world starts to reopen. Dr. O’Neill mentioned it’s not so much a policy change as a behavioral one. She recommends that executives and managers need to be highly visible about using leave time. This needs to be done in concert with maintaining strong boundaries about not working while on vacation. “It's important to make sure employees take their vacations. There isby my colleague Dr.
The second solution is to edit your organization’s work policies, in light of what you’ve learned through the pandemic. “This is an opportunity for organizations to ditch the arcane or toxic policies that would have taken years to change before,” Dr. O’Neil said. Specifically, what will a return to work with an hybrid approach look like? Remote working is a technology that can help people stay productive while not having to fight traffic or manage other adjacent stressors.
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