If you’re feeling exhausted at your workplace, it’s not just you. Experts say the American workforce is undergoing a “Great Exhaustion.”



The term, coined in a Dec. 2023 New Yorker article, is how West Virginia University Chair and Professor of Behavioral Medicine and Psychology James Berry describes the phenomenon resulting in 60% or more of the U.S. workforce saying they are “moderately burnt out” or more.

If you’re feeling exhausted at your workplace, it’s not just you. Experts say the American workforce is undergoing a “Great Exhaustion.”
 
The term, <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/culture/2023-in-review/an-exhausting-year-in-and-out-of-the-office">coined in a Dec. 2023 New Yorker article</a>, is how West Virginia University Chair and Professor of Behavioral Medicine and Psychology James Berry describes the phenomenon resulting in 60% or more of the U.S. workforce saying they are “moderately burnt out” or more.

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