Burnout affects more and more workers and remains a difficult subject to address, including with colleagues. For Rebecca Ricchi, an expert coach in psychosocial risks, “burnout allows us to describe a collapse in the collective imagination. However, as soon as we observe someone who suffers at work and ends up having physical, social and relational symptoms, there is already suffering.”
“Burnout,” she adds, “is the crash against the wall, when you can no longer even get up in the morning. Except that before the crash, there are still moments when you go too fast, when you hit the wall, when you develop lots of symptoms, all of which will lead to the crash.” To help a colleague who is suffering, it is therefore essential to take stock of certain changes and difficulties which, when taken together, can lead to burnout, and to act beforehand.
We talk about psychosocial risks when there are manifestations of symptoms of suffering. “When people start to suffer, it is because there is a major imbalance between their resources and their constraints at work,” explains Rebecca Ricchi. This suffering will emerge when our employment conditions clash with our personal resources and we are no longer able to produce our missions and this can be due to many things: complexity of missions, pressure of timing, loss of boundaries between personal life and professional life, low or too much autonomy, (…)
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