An April 2021 article in Forbes magazine cited a survey conducted by Indeed of 1500 US employees on the topic of work-related burnout, and the results are startling. Approximately 52% of those surveyed reported that they were experiencing burnout, an increase from the 43% found in a pre-covid-19 survey. 53% of millennials felt that they were experiencing burnout prior to the pandemic, with 59% reporting that they were experiencing burnout at the time of the survey. A May 2021 article in Forbes cited further research indicating that 81% of organizational leaders admit that they do not know how to cope with burnout within their organizations.

Today we are continuing the conversation on work related burnout with someone who has not only lived it, but has also done the research on this form of emotional exhaustion from a Caribbean context. Dr. Cheryl -Ann Phillips Hall embarked on closing the gap of knowledge of this phenomenon called burnout in the Caribbean, when she wrote her thesis focused on the relationship between burnout and management centrality power, workload and differences in preferred leadership style