Key Highlights
- Burnout myths, busted by the expertsOnce, after surviving yet another round of redundancies in a former job, I did something very odd.
- I turned off the lights in my room and lay face-down on the bed, unable to move.
- Rather than feeling relief at having escaped the axe, I was exhausted and numb.
- I’m not the only one.
- Fatigue, apathy and hopelessness are all textbook signs of burnout, a bleak phenomenon that has come to define many of our working lives.
