myAIPMWomen do more to fight burnout - and it's burning them out
by Tiffany Burns, Jess Huang, Alexis Krivkovich, Ishanaa Rambachan, Tijana Trkulja, and Lareina Yee | Harvard Business Review
Burnout is real and getting worse. The numbers are discouraging, for both men and women: 42% of women and 35% of men in Corporate America have felt burned out in the last few months (up from 32% and 28% respectively last year). One of three women surveyed say they have considered downshifting or leaving the workforce altogether. (Last year, it was one in four.) These figures come from McKinsey and LeanIn.org’s latest Women in the Workplace report, which surveyed 65,000 people in the United States.
Despite their own increasing levels of burnout, our research also indicates that women are much more likely than men to take action to fight it, for example by managing workloads of their teams, supporting diversity equity and inclusion efforts, and simply checking in on how employees are doing. This makes a difference: We found, for example, that when managers actively managed the workload of their team, their staff were 32% less likely to be burned out and 33% less likely to leave.
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Burns, T., Huang, J., Krivkovich, A., Rambachan, I., Trkulja, T. & Yee, L. (2021) Women do more to fight burnout - and it's burning them out. Harvard Business Review. https://hbr.org/2021/10/women-do-more-to-fight-burnout-and-its-burning-them-out