Six Key Categories of Job Burnout

The authors add that sometimes there isn’t much that can be done about the negative aspects of work. But in trying to beat burnout, the key is to increase the number of positives, and, they write, “building the opposite of burnout, engagement.”

“When burnout is counteracted with engagement,” Maslach and Leiter write, “exhaustion is replaced with enthusiasm, bitterness with compassion, and anxiety with efficacy.”