Burnout is a caustic concept. Many busy business owners, and even everyday workers, struggle to balance “growth” with “exhaustion.” 76 percent of employees experience burnout on a regular basis, and this is a problem that can be solved with a Glide app. However, for now, let us go over some strategies to avoid burnout while still pushing for business growth.

Causes Of Burnout

Burnout is defined as being overworked. You struggle through your day, drive three hours in rush hour traffic, and return home to take care of kids, parents, and attend to family. Work-related stressors, and lifestyle causes (such as smoking and a lack of exercise) are the top pillars of burnout.

This can include but is not limited to: little control over the work you are doing, a lack of job clarification, highly emotional work (such as doctors), and high workloads with long hours. Mind you, these sound simple enough, but they are dangerous to your bottom line.

Burnout In Businesses

The biggest issue with work-related burnout is that we cannot escape it. The only way to do that is to automate your tasks using something like a Tempro glide app. Burnout can cause decreased productivity, resulting in $1.9 trillion (yes, you heard right: $1.9 trillion!) in a company’s bottom line. It is also a cause of other factors unrelated to work. Low socialization, or spending time with others (ever walk into a workplace that is dead silent?) can also play a factor in burnout and fatigue.

Let us define: “burnout.”

According to Forbes.com, burnout is defined as:

“Burnout is a persistent feeling of physical and emotional exhaustion that frequently comes with pessimism and disengagement from work, and both employees and entrepreneurs may face large monetary costs.”

Is there any other reason to try and reduce burnout?

If You Are Here…

If you are here, chances are you are looking for ways to simplify the burnout pandemic. We will provide several tips for this, but first, let us discuss what you can start doing now.

First, begin to distance yourself from work when…well, when not at work. Socialization is a big factor in the psychology of the human essence; without human touch or communication, we struggle to find reasons to live. This can cause a psychological mechanism where dread is all you think about.

So, some tips.

1) Build The Engagement Of The Employee

If you are a manager, you may be blind to the fact that your workers have ideas, too. Building engagement and involving your worker bees at an organizational level can help both reduce burnout, as well as provide a more purposeful work environment.

Studies indicate that 53% of workers wish they could work from home. The cold, isolating environment of the workplace – often dead silent or too afraid to speak – destroys an employee’s ability to feel at home at work. Foster growth, and engagement, and provide rewards.

At TemproShop.com, we face a lot of these challenges. We have found that a simple “thank you for doing your job right” can make all the difference.

2) Emotional Well-Being & Burnout

Another common reason why burnout occurs is so simple, yet so rare: mental health awareness. Google, as an example, has fancy “nap pods” that let their employees recharge. Studies have shown that even one hour away from the rapid-fire pace of a work environment can improve productivity by 73%.

If you are a manager, make sure you have a “door always open” policy. Encourage and entail daily breaks and a way to escape from the pressures found in the work. Lastly, guidance is another lesson we can all learn from: bringing in subject matter experts to train employees can reinvigorate them to the nuances of your business. If all else fails, use and customize a Glide app template to measure productivity after you implement such systems. Lastly, offering counseling, clear communication, and the like can ease burnout.

3) Reduce Burnout With Health

I once worked as a Sales Associate in my earlier years. On the day of the interview, prior to building TemproShop.com, I watched in awe as the meeting room engaged in a lively chant. This invigorated the employees to the point where they were so excited to go out and make sales calls that they could not wait.

This brings us to a point: increasing team-building activities and providing a work-relationship balance is essential. Remember, an employee is a person. How would you want to be treated? Mental health is an important topic, and we will not divulge down that road.

What we will do, however, is point out a simple fact: engaging your workers in the day-to-day routine makes them feel at home, and improving the ability to socialize in the workplace (often seen as “unproductive” by any) is essential.

You may be thinking: “I want my employees at work! Not chit-chatting!” Well, that “chit-chat” is a way to increase productivity. Remember the statistic on the costs of employee burnout? How much does it cost you – besides the $1.9 trillion lost yearly due to burnout – to let your employees socialize? To take breaks?

4) Communication & Burnout

Lastly, feeling a part of something greater than yourself can make all the difference in the world. Make the workplace look less like a room brimming with busy workers and instead, provide the ability for cubicles or offices to be customized; break away from the “no phones at work” dilemma; let your team communicate to themselves and to you, as well.

Research states that having a purpose at work makes a world of difference. If you can provide a meaning behind the work, or the task at hand, and energize the employee to realize this is “in their hands, but to collaborate with others,” you have just embarked on a team-building exercise.

This produces growth, which reduces workplace burnout and fatigue.

Glide Templates & How They Can Help

TemproShop Glide apps come with the ability to customize with a no-code approach. Consider contacting us for expert advice, or to pick a template and use it to measure results. If you can set a baseline for how much money you are making (or losing) on the old way of doing things, you can then use the app to examine behavioral patterns. Remember, workers are people, too, and we all abide by the same needs: health, wealth, and happiness. If you implement a reward system (where the highest-performing employees receive a special massage, or be creative in your thinking), that may cost $200-300 a week.

Now, take that number and add it to the bottom line. Then, measure employee turnover, productivity, and of course: income, to see if what you are doing is working. If not, go back to the drawing board. There is no “right” or “wrong” way to reduce workplace burnout, but it is possible with patience and understanding. Again, your employees are there to work, to make money, and to grow your business.

But they are also human beings – just like you. This means you need to engage them, show them they are welcome where they are, and for the love of God, do not (I repeat: do not) limit conversation or “chit-chat.” This is often seen as a waste of time, but time and time again, even a 15-20 minute break to socialize with other employees can increase your productivity tenfold.

Conclusion

We hope this has been satisfactory. Remember, workers are people, too; you can find plenty of ways to reduce this. Would you rather lose $1.9 trillion in your bottom line, or is switching to a more holistic approach a good idea? I think the latter is the best choice.

Check out our Glide app templates or contact us for expert advice!