Too Much of a Good Thing? Mitigating the Risk of Burnout in Highly Engaged Workplaces

Employee engagement has long been a core measure for how well a company is doing to create an enjoyable and high-performing organizational culture. Engaged workplace cultures have also generally been shown to lower the likelihood of new incidents of depression and anxiety, but engagement alone does not always give us a full picture of how employees are feeling about work and life on a daily basis. Recent Gallup polling has even suggested that a significant number of highly engaged employees experience challenges and stress associated with burnout, workload management, and overall work-life balance