Virtually Every “Burnout Reduction Strategy” Would Terrify A Middle Manager

“Silence is golden? WTF? What about when I need to reach Randy?”

I’ve done a few deep dives on burnout and stress:

“Burnout” is a term of the moment. What’s really happening?

A Too-Brief Snapshot Of Modern Mental Health

It amazes me how we’ve been writing almost the exact same article about “burnout prevention strategies” for seven years now. Here’s another version from Quartz at Work. Their strategies are:

• Let employees say no
• Let them disconnect
• Let them silence devices and email

First off, bullet 2 and bullet 3 are essentially the same. But let’s move on.

Go show that list of bullets to a middle manager. They will instantly break out in hives and then shuttlecock themselves through the nearest…