In five years, the number of people unable to work for long periods of time due to burnout or depression has increased by 43 percent. By the end of 2022, 125,700 people in our country had been sitting at home for at least a year because they were struggling with one of those two mental illnesses. That is according to the latest data from the National Institute for Sickness and Disability Insurance (Riziv) on Thursday, which "The time" was able to access.
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Posted by tesrepurwash121810
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>Binnen die groep is de stijging het grootst bij vrouwen. Meer dan twee derde (69 procent) van de mensen in invaliditeit door burn-out of depressie is een vrouw.
Unequal burden sharing in the household (still?!) might be an issue then.
Big companies should have a far more pro-active policy to avoid burn – and bore-outs at work. Most burn-out initiatives I’ve seen were frankly bullshit (yoga moments etc).The government should implement this as part of a new productivity pact.
Everything keeps getting more expensive, wages barely rise above inflation, young people have less perspective to actually harvest the fruit of their labour, productivity keeps going up, etc.
And then you get ill with a disorder that a lot of people still look down upon and you get called a softie and whatnot. Burnout is not a joke. I had coworkers who sat on their couch in the morning, crying at the thought of having to go out the door. They just couldn’t take it any longer. It took them over a year to recover and to be able to function at a decent level again.
Solution: decrease work hours per week with no change in pay.
People will be more productive, focused, make less mistakes, have less sick leaves to make up for the lost work hours.
Jealous baby boomers who suffered a lot in the past would rather want everyone suffer as well than making sure societal progression takes place.