The Burnout Epidemic: The Rise of Chronic Stress and How We Can Fix It by Jennifer Moss

BATB score: 7/10 🔥

Burnout is a company’s problem not an individual’s illness. Providing Headspace app membership and/or Modern Health zoom workshop does not constitute as “a company that has demonstrated care for employees well-being”.

Best to: the causes of burnout, the measures against burnout, and the self-care needed for leadership with burnout fighting for other employees to not burnout

Best for: HR and C-level leadership who wants their legacy to include “demonstrates care for employees well-being”

Best as: a casual research paper analysis on burnout

Best quotes: "I never said it would be easy. I only said it would be worth it."

"When employees do not trust their manager, teammates or executive leadership, it breaks the psychological bond that makes work meaningful."

"The inability to test one's perceptions, the tendency to lose touch with reality because one occupies a top position, is a danger anyone can fall victim to when in a leadership position."