Measuring Employee Risk for Burnout

Abstract

Employee mental health is now moving into the fast lane as com panies realize that presenteeism costs and mental ill-health related issues have a negative correlation to company productivity and overall engagement. Fur thermore, burnout or mental exhaustion tends to significantly afflict the most productive and motivated employees within the company, so proactively identifying such risk is sustainably advantageous for continuous operations. The objective of the study is to examine the reliability and validity of the Risk for Burnout Measure to proactively identify an employee’s potential risk for burnout within a cohort from various companies in Sweden.