PUSH Magazine, Volume 2, Issue 4

Understanding Burnout Overcoming burnout is much more complicated than taking an extended vacation or maintaining an exercise routine.

If you were to conduct a current poll of our sports tourism colleagues on how they feel about work, it would not be a shock to hear the same thing across the board.

Truly most are feeling burnout. Over the past few months, this sentiment has increased with an onslaught of travel due to most industry conferences pushed into the Fall months.

4.3 million Americans left their jobs in August 2021 for various reasons, burnout being one of them.

It may be evident that workers are feeling burned out after a twoyear-long pandemic and the stresses that have come with it. However, the precise reasons why so many are in agony are less understood.

Management falls into the trap of believing the best way to overcome burnout is to encourage more time off or an increase in benefits.

However, burnout is a mixed bag of unfortunate and outdated administrative policies and procedures, responsibilities that now possess higher risk, and new social issues.

Burnout is confusing. To efficiently tackle the issue, we all must focus on the core concerns causing its growth.

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