Everyone talks about “burnout” as something that happens when you work too much.

I see it far more in people who work a normal amount on things they know don’t matter. - twitter / HN

• The job of the future will be complex, and therefore frustrating - In which we discuss a second driver of workplace stress—effort-reward imbalance—and learn why the term ‘burnout’ was originally reserved for human service workers.

Burnout and exhaustion are not the same, burnout comes from a combination of six main factors:

• Unsustainable workload
• Perceived lack of control
• Insufficient rewards for effort
• Lack of a supportive community
• Lack of fairness
• Mismatched values and skills

see also:

• Post Burnout Ideas