Dr. Katie Elizabeth Green

But actually, it's increasingly recognized that it's not an individual failing.

Often, it is because a person is experiencing pressure from

from lots of different areas of their life.

And we see that burnout rates are much higher where people are working in environments and cultures where there's poor leadership, toxic leadership, maybe workplace bullying.

extremely high workloads, lack of support.

So there's those sort of structural factors that are playing into this situation and really exacerbating burnout rates.

So to go back to your question, no, it's definitely not an individual failing.

It's a combination of factors that are hitting a person hard all at once.

It's a good question.

And it really does depend on the individual because people will be affected by different factors.

So one person might be working with a line manager or somebody more senior to them and they get on great with that person.

another individual may have a really difficult relationship with that person.

And that causes a level of stress that over time accumulates for that individual.

So there's no kind of black and white answer to that question.

It really does depend on the individual.

But what we have found in research is that where there are cultures of chronic overworking, sort of expectations of constantly being available,

poor leadership, lack of psychological safety where people feel like they can't speak up and share their perspectives.

Those factors are very sort of commonly causing burnout for people.

Yeah, absolutely.

I think at that particular point of a person's career, they've demonstrated, in order to get to where they've got to, they've demonstrated a high level of competence.