What is your Burnout Index?

Big financial institutions, law firms, start ups - I'm talking to you. Covid erased boundaries between work and family life, took away personal space, made us lose the benefit of transitional time.

Did you take advantage of that by piling up work and adjusting deadlines? What is the burnout index in your company, in you? Do you schedule zoom calls back to back, not leaving any room in between to allow individuals to have life outside of their working hours? How sensitive is your firm about the fact that people have kids at home, that these kids have graduations and projects, that they need attention from their parents and not just their caretakers.

What will happen to this future generation who has witnessed their parents not leave their zoom calls all day? What will that say to them about us and our relationships with our kids and our loved one? How does that reflect on your corporate values and your respect for your most precious asset - your talent? Is the American thirst for money taking over all of us?

I see a true epidemic that has resulted from Covid, and it's the epidemic of workaholism, of allowing ourselves to bury ourselves in incessant projects and deadlines in order to numb out anxiety, worry, uncertainty about the future. Statistics show that 1 out of 3 individuals had suffered from a form of depression this past year and a half, and that statistic is 1 out of 2 women.

Let's think about how we move forward. Let's really look into the burnout index and lower it at all costs, so that the fallout from the Covid pandemic isn't as devastating. Let's fight overwhelm and burnout through the increase of our creativity index, through out of the box thinking about organic balance in our lives and return to normal. Let's find joy, innovation, and productivity in a healthy way.