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Grant reframes burnout as an organizational design problem, not an individual resilience problem. The research shows that burnout is caused by systemic factors — workload, control, reward, fairness — not by weak individuals.
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Grant presents Christina Maslach's research: burnout has six organizational causes — unsustainable workload, lack of control, insufficient reward, breakdown of community, absence of fairness, and values mismatch. All six are environmental, not individual.
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Telling burned-out workers to practice self-care is like telling someone in a toxic relationship to meditate — the solution is changing the environment, not building tolerance
Grant challenges the self-care narrative: prescribing yoga and meditation to workers in toxic work environments is addressing the symptom while ignoring the cause. The environment must change, not the individual's coping mechanisms.Was this useful?