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Burnout and Wellbeing

Burnout and Wellbeing

What the show has said about burnout, workplace wellbeing, and the structures (boundaries, hope, health, money) that keep people well at work.

What's been said

  • Leading through burnout is a real, named problem. When you're running on empty yourself, the panel's advice is that leadership and recovery aren't separate tracks — the "leading through burnout when you're running on empty" conversation treats leader wellbeing as a precondition, not a luxury .
  • Boundaries are the burnout prevention. Workplace Surgery on setting boundaries before burnout — the practical how-to of saying no before the tank is empty .
  • Hope — not happiness — creates meaning at work. The research story: hope is the emotion that makes work feel meaningful, which reframes what "wellbeing" programmes should aim at .
  • Health and money are wellbeing drivers. The 2024 panel predicted workplace health trends would redefine employee wellbeing, and flagged financial wellbeing as impossible for employers to ignore .
  • Illness and recovery are part of the deal. Rory Sutherland on what employers are throwing away when they mishandle illness and recovery time — including taking three days off when your mum has a fall .
  • Unwinding is real work. Even the lighter Corporate Family Fortunes round revealed how workers actually decompress after stressful days .

The episodes & clips that cover this

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  • Round 7: How workers really unwind after a stressful day and wrap-up

    A women's toilet in Warrington Yes

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  • Leading Through Burnout When You're Running on Empty

    So I'll read the question. Uh, so this person's writing in and basically the problem is that their team's burning out and so are they. So they write, I can see my team is burning out. The energy's gon

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  • Story 3: Hope is the emotion that creates meaning at work

    Well, this is very meta, isn't it? What makes work feel meaningful? For me, something where I can create something. So maybe this is why I do like generative AI. If I feel like at the end of the day,

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  • Illness, work, and what employers are throwing away

    And I think that's for the very simple reason that there are illnesses which leave you unable to work, but they're a small subset of illnesses that leave you unable to commute. Now, the most obvious c

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  • Workplace Surgery: setting boundaries and preventing burnout

    Oh, um, yeah, again, without a bit more information context, you know what I'm like, I'm always like, it depends. I need a bit more, I need a bit more info, a bit, I need a bit more insight. But I gue

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  • Prediction 2: Workplace health trends

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  • Prediction 4: Financial wellbeing

    So, prediction number 2 is that we'll see a huge improvement in healthcare for workers. What's our 3rd prediction, Al? The 3rd one is around financial wellbeing. Now, we did an episode around about a

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