We've lost a lot of members of our team over the last few months. We've worked out the logistics of redistributing the workload of those associates to maintain continuity for our customers but I don't know that we've really talked about the personal toll these changes take for those of us remaining. My dad used to say "It's better to do one or two things really well than many badly" and as we take on more work from those no longer with us, we expand our current roles to take up the slack created by someone's absence, it's really easy to feel like you're dropping the ball or you're not meeting expectations (whether yours or someone else's). Those feelings can add to fears about job insecurity. Couple this with feelings of isolation from working from home, rarely ever seeing someone you work with and you have a toxic working environment in your own head.
If you're experiencing any or all of these feelings, you might be on your way to burnout. Burnout can have very physical, mental and of course financial ramifications. Know the signs of burnout, take the burnout test and learn what you can do about it.
https://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/recovering-from-burnout.htm
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