We tend to blame burnout on simply doing too much, but some researchers argue it grows from six quieter mismatches — workload, control, reward, community, fairness and values — between a person and the job

For years I believed burnout was a simple equation. Too many hours in, not enough rest out, and eventually you hit the wall. It is a tidy theory, and in my experience mostly wrong. The worst stretch I have ever had was not in finance. It came later, when I was running my own businesses, [...] The post We tend to blame burnout on simply doing too much, but some researchers argue it grows from six quieter mismatches — workload, control, reward, community, fairness and values — between a person and