{"id":344,"date":"2024-09-03T15:08:01","date_gmt":"2024-09-03T15:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.therechargecompany.com\/waarom-de-focus-op-burnout-het-probleem-niet-oplost\/"},"modified":"2024-09-03T15:08:03","modified_gmt":"2024-09-03T15:08:03","slug":"why-the-focus-on-burnout-doesnt-solve-the-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.therechargecompany.com\/en\/why-the-focus-on-burnout-doesnt-solve-the-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Why focusing on burnout doesn't solve the problem"},"content":{"rendered":"

Psychologist magazine posted in August the farewell speech<\/strong><\/a> of Wilmar Schaufeli as Professor of Occupational and Organizational Psychology at Utrecht University. The 67-year-old, in my opinion, international frontrunner when it comes to research on burnout thus concludes his academic career.<\/p>\n

What is striking are his next words, \"There has been a waste race going on for years. There is a strong shift from physical to mental strain. Customer-oriented work is being demanded of more and more employees. Employees are also faced with cutbacks and flexibilization. Job advertisements increasingly emphasize the importance of social skills; being able to express yourself well, working in a team, and being able to take setbacks.\"<\/p>\n

Only these are not Schaufeli's recent words, but words from his oration that the Volkskrant headlined on its front page 25 years ago.<\/p>\n

Reading this, not much seems to have changed over the past few years. So what we call \"burnout\" has been around for a long time. Only now it is hyped<\/strong><\/a>. Schaufeli actually says as much in so many words. Thus, as a counterpoint to what is happening in the media<\/strong><\/a> often asserted, exposes the nuance that in principle there are no burnout epidemic<\/strong><\/a> prevails. While there is an upward trend in burnout symptoms among employees, this says nothing about the actual number of burnout cases.<\/p>\n

Relative to other European countries, we are doing in the Netherlands<\/strong><\/a> not even bad. On average, 1 in 16 workers regularly feel exhausted at the end of the workday, compared with 1 in 10 in Europe on average. In addition, more than 18 percent of the Dutch labor force<\/strong><\/a> to be inspired against a European average of 11 percent.<\/p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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