Verilife recently surveyed 2,000 Americans to ask them about their experiences with burnout, symptoms of burnout and how they cope with stress and exhaustion in 2020. Burnout is something that several impacts many people in this country. The survey found that over 92% of Americans say they deal with some form of burnout in their daily lives. That is nine in ten Americans! Left untreated, burnout can lead to many physical and mental problems for many people. Burnout is generally caused by prolonged stress or exposure to stressful situations. Many people have burnout from dealing with their jobs and in 2020 many people are experiencing COVID-19 related burnout. Let’s take a deeper into what the survey on burnout in America found.
The first part of the analysis looked at the most common Google search terms that are related to burnout. We wanted to find what symptoms of burnout that people are Googling the most around the country. Burnout search terms related to burnout at work or burnout in the workplace were found to be the most common throughout the country with over 20 states searching for occupational burnout terms or phrases. This was followed by search terms related to burnout within the healthcare industry. It’s not surprising to see an industry that deals with so much stress and high pressure situations like the healthcare industry.
Listed below is the top search term related to burnout for all 50 states in America:
1. Alabama – Professional burnout
2. Alaska – Parental burnout
3. Arizona – Exhaustion work
4. Arkansas – Healing from burnout
5. California – Cristina Maslach
6. Colorado – Healthcare worker burnout
7. Connecticut – Burnout exhaustion
8. Delaware – Stress exhaustion
9. Washington D.C. – Burnout exhaustion
10. Florida – Nursing burnout
11. Georgia – Medical leave for burnout
12. Hawaii – Stress burnout
13. Idaho – Counselor burnout
14. Illinois – Exhaustion burnout
15. Indiana – Maslach burnout inventory
16. Iowa – Signs of job burnout
17. Kansas – Nurses and burnout
18. Kentucky – Dr. Sheryl Ziegler
19. Louisiana – Clinical burnout
20. Maine – Managing burnout
21. Maryland – Millennials burnout generation
22. Michigan – Burnout stress syndrome
23. Minnesota – Motherhood burnout
24. Mississippi – Signs of emotional exhaustion
25. Missouri – Coping with burnout
26. Montana – Therapist burnout
27. Nebraska – Signs of emotional exhaustion
28. Nevada – Signs of and symptoms of burnout
29. New Hampshire – Signs of emotional exhaustion
30. New Jersey – Medical student stress and burnout
31. New Mexico – Overcoming burnout
32. New York – Therapist burnout
33. North Carolina – Wife burnout
34. North Dakota – Workplace burnout
35. Ohio – Exhaustion work
36. Oklahoma – Nurse burnout prevention
37. Oregon – Burnout by Emily Nagoski
38. Pennsylvania – Fight burnout
39. Rhode Island – Healthcare worker burnout
40. South Carolina – Emotional burnout
41. South Dakota – Signs of burnout at work
42. Tennessee – Emotional and mental exhaustion
43. Texas – Emotional burnout
44. Utah – Avoiding burnout at work
45. Vermont – mental burnout
46. Virginia – Burnout podcast
47. Washington – Combating burnout
48. West Virginia – Burnt out on life
49. Wisconsin – Burnout Exhaustion
50. Wyoming – Employee burnout
What to look for when dealing with burnout?
So now that we have covered what people are searching for in regard to burnout, let’s examine the signs to look for if you think you or a loved one might be dealing with burnout. As mentioned above, an astounding 92% of Americans say they have dealt with burnout in their daily lives. 73% of those surveyed say that live has become overly-complicated and that 80% feel that life in general is more stressful than it was for previous generations. Let us take a look at how often Americans are dealing with both physical and mental exhaustion.
Mental exhaustion:
1. More than once a week (38%)
2. Daily (22%)
3. About once a week (22%)
4. About once a month (12%)
5. Rarely/never (6%)
Physical exhaustion:
1. More than once a week (35%)
2. About once a week (25%)
3. Daily (21%)
4. About once a month (12%)
5. Rarely/never (7%)
Most common causes for burnout:
1. COVID-19 (72%)
2. Work (69%)
3. Finances (67%)
4. Politics (47%)
5. The news (39%)
6. Social media (38%)
7. Civil unrest (34%)
8. Lack of socializing (30%)
Workplace burnout
As mentioned above, workplace burnout is the second leading cause of burnout for a majority of Americans. 80% of Americans say burnout has prevented them from focusing at work and on their jobs. 56% say that burnout has prevented them from going to work at once point. Another 59% of Americans say they consider themselves to be workaholics. 82% report feeling that they always have to be on and performing well at their job. One third of surveyed respondents believe that their job is toxic. 61% say they have cried before, during or after work over something that happened at work. One-third of Americans say they also feel less productive at work during the pandemic.
How often do Americans feel overworked?
1. 28% of Americans say they are overworked more than once a week
2. 26% say about once a week they feel overworked
3. 22% report daily
4. 15% report about once a month
5. Only 9% say they rarely or never feel overworked
Remote work burnout
Many Americans are working remotely or from home primarily for the first time in their careers as a direct result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Because of this many people feel either uncomfortable or stressed out as a result of working in a different environment. 67% of those surveyed say they already feel burned out form working remotely this year. 57% even report working longer hours each day since working remotely. As far as the most common causes for workplace related burnout, pressure to put in extra work (41%), not taking PTO (36%), working remotely (35%), fear of being furloughed/layoffs (34%), having a stressful manager or boss (28%), stressful coworkers (24%) and a toxic work culture (24%).
Infographic by: verilife
