working theory: a lot of “burnout” is just the result of prolonged exposure to environments you were never truly aligned with to start

working theory: a lot of “burnout” is just the result of prolonged exposure to environments you were never truly aligned with to start

Burnout is an indicator that something has gone wrong in the way we organize our work. But as a concept it remains lodged in an old paradigm—a work ethic that was already dubious in America’s industrial period, and now, in a period of extreme inequality and increasing precarity across once-stable professions, is even harder to credit.