Burnout Quotes by Jennifer Moss
From the News Media and Interviews
"Seventy-four percent of people we surveyed said they were the loneliest they’ve ever been. One in five millennials say they have no friends."
— Jennifer Moss
"Everything that we were thinking about before accelerated in front of our eyes. We’ve had what felt like an acute emergency that’s lasted almost two years. That’s 20 straight months of macro stress that inevitably burns people out."
— Jennifer Moss
"Burnout shouldn’t be a problem that you have to deal with yourself on your own time."
— Jennifer Moss
"I write a whole chapter about good intentions gone wrong, including these so-called perks. On-site laundry and meals-to-go aren’t actually perks if all they do is keep you at work longer."
— Jennifer Moss
"I’m a cautious optimist, not an irrational optimist, but yes. First, more conversations at work about mental health will reduce burnout, as will the adoption of telehealth and teletherapy."
— Jennifer Moss
"Overwork is responsible for about 2.8 million deaths a year, so it is catastrophic, but there’s more to it than that."
— By Jennifer Moss
"I get so frustrated to see companies touting a week off for burnt-out employees. Do companies not understand that employees will come back in a week to the exact same workplace that burned them out in the first place?"
— By Jennifer Moss
"Wellness and well-being are valued more than it was before; one survey found that of people leaving jobs, only four percent now are leaving because of money. What matters to us has changed. And now we’re changing our actions."
— Jennifer Moss
"People are rallying around the idea that burnout is an organizational problem, not a personal problem. People’s feelings of burnout and fatigue are validated when we all feel them together. Organizations are no longer going to make this a personal problem."
— Jennifer Moss
Additional Quotes by Jennifer Moss
"We’ve had what felt like an acute emergency situation that’s lasted almost two years. That’s 20 straight months of macro stress that inevitably burns people out”.
— Jennifer Moss
“One of the most important economic shifts we’re seeing right now is a desire to change the workplace.” -Jennifer Moss Click to Tweet
“We’re going to see a lot of big organizations start to fail at recruiting and retaining people.” -Jennifer Moss Click to Tweet
“If we invest in well-being and employee happiness, it translates into high performance in every job.” -Jennifer Moss Click to Tweet
“We’ve been measuring for so long with this antiquated metric of employee engagement.” -Jennifer Moss Click to Tweet
“When you look at purpose-driven jobs, employee engagement is high.” -Jennifer Moss Click to Tweet
“We’re not catching things like compassion fatigue, empathy fatigue, depletion, stress, anxiety and that’s killing our workforce.” -Jennifer Moss Click to Tweet
“We can look at how well-being and employee health and happiness contribute to goals.” -Jennifer Moss Click to Tweet
“As humans we tend to over-complicate solutions.” -Jennifer Moss Click to Tweet
“We’re not doing a good job of understanding that it’s about individual experiences at work.” -Jennifer Moss Click to Tweet
“Every single organization has a different culture than another.” -Jennifer Moss Click to Tweet
“What is the secret sauce for organizations that drives and motivates people?” -Jennifer Moss Click to Tweet
“In a lot of organizations, trust and communication is one of the biggest happiness detractors.” -Jennifer Moss Click to Tweet
“We have a fairly disengaged global workforce.” -Jennifer Moss Click to Tweet
“You can’t ask someone to meet certain expectations if you’re not going to give them the tools to meet them.” -Jennifer Moss Click to Tweet
“When you look at the key traits to being happy, mastery is a very important part of that.” -Jennifer Moss Click to Tweet
“Life is a bit of triage and priority setting.” -Jennifer Moss Click to Tweet
“You can have anything, not everything.” -Jennifer Moss Click to Tweet
“It’s our flexibility and resilience that’s going to make us have the most successful lives.” -Jennifer Moss Click to Tweet