Jeder dritte belgische Arbeitnehmer ist von Burnout bedroht

>Almost one in three Belgian manual workers (32.9%) and one in four office workers (25.5%) is at risk of burnout in the country, according to a study by HR service provider Securex based on KU Leuven’s Burnout Assessment Tool.

>Over one in eight (13.6%) cases – more than half a million people – involve workers who are in the “red zone”. This means that they already have severe burnout symptoms and are on the verge of burnout. Another 14.7% are in the “orange zone”, with increased risk of burnout symptoms.

>There are four core symptoms that characterise burnout: exhaustion (physical and mental), mental distancing (distancing from work), cognitive dysregulation (memory problems or concentration disorders) and emotional dysregulation (intense emotional reactions such as tantrums or bursting into tears).

>”The total number of employees at risk of burnout (1,178,846) has remained more or less stable since 2021. However, we do see a clear difference in how that burnout risk evolves among manual workers and office workers as well as within certain age groups,” said research project manager at Securex, Heidi Verlinden.

What if the government would make the companies accountable for the burnouts that they create with their toxic environments? Force them to pay 50% of the long term sick leaves they generate instead of burdening the public social services and you will see how magically they start implementing actual procedures to improve their employees well being instead of being factories of burnouts.