THE CONSEQUENCES OF BURNOUT AND STRESS TOWARDS EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT

Employee burnout can strike at any time, but it has become more common since the coronavirus outbreak. Nonetheless, reports on employee burnout affecting employee engagement of the Big 4 audit firms has made to media news years before the COVID-19 pandemic.

A headline story entitled “When Employee Engagement Turns into Employee Burnout” (by Tony Schwartz) reported that employees are all too often expected to work long hours and then be on call nights and weekends. The author opined that working long hours does not mean that an employee is engaged; rather, it is a formula for burnout and failure to maintain high efficiency.