Employee burnout: what should managers do and how do Western sanctions relate with it?

Abstract: In the last five years, the topic of professional and emotional burnout has become very popular. Covid restrictions and Western sanctions have worsened the lives of companies and have caused people to quarrels at all levels. And a long forced stay in uncertainty is exhausting for everyone. In this paper, we will briefly present what was discussed at one of the meetings of business representatives with Natalia Tsvetkova, a professor at Moscow Pedagogical State University, the author of eleven books, two textbooks and online workshops on the topic of job burnout. She talked about how to find clarity in an uncertain future. We will also look at some related stories shared by the heads of design and survey organizations.

Keywords: professional burnout; emotional burnout; loss of meaning; prevention of burnout; meaningful purpose; creativity; positive trigger words; interest in work