Feeling the Burn: Novel Strategies for Fighting Burnout in the New World of Work

As we enter a post-pandemic working world, understanding how to reduce and prevent burnout is a pressing and timely issue—one that is paramount to putting the worker front and center. Our symposium will examine how and why fighting burnout will look different in this new world of work, with an explicit focus on novel work contexts ranging from independent and gig jobs to virtual and hybrid organizations. The session will convene a group of organizational behavior experts with different lenses on burnout to expand our view and identify future directions for research and practice: Susan Ashford, Amy Edmondson, Tracy Dumas, Laura Giurge, and Adam Grant. In an interactive and structured panel discussion, our panelists will collectively address the following three objectives: (1) Understand the state of the science and unanswered questions about burnout in the new world of work; (2) Define strategies for individuals to fight burnout; and (3) Explore how organizations and occupations can change the cultural and structural conditions that promote burnout.