Preventing Job Burnout by Susan Friedmann ExhibiTips, Volume 3. You may be suffering from job burnout - America's latest and fastest growing epidemic. Fourteen percent quit or changed jobs in the past two years due to job stress. If you are not a victim, you probably know many who are. Job burnout is an impairment of motivation to work which occurs after prolonged periods of high stress.
Job stress occurs when there is a high level of job demands and little control over one's work.
If neglected, these symptoms can continue until a person dreads going to work, feels demoralized, and is totally unable to cope with anything. Little say about how to do their job 2. Feelings of never being caught up 3. Frequent sickness 4. A desire to quit and a fear of doing so 5.