{"id":216493,"date":"2025-06-24T06:06:55","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T11:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/burnout-might-not-actually-be-a-work-problem-after-all-study-shows"},"modified":"2025-06-24T06:06:55","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T11:06:55","slug":"burnout-might-not-actually-be-a-work-problem-after-all-study-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/burnout-might-not-actually-be-a-work-problem-after-all-study-shows","title":{"rendered":"Burnout Might Not Actually Be a Work Problem After All, Study Shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/burnout-might-not-actually-be-a-work-problem-after-all-study-shows.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When we hear the term \u201cburnout\u201d, most of us would think about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/phenomenon-that-makes-night-shift-harmful-to-the-body-identified\">working long hours<\/a>, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/getting-interrupted-at-work-raises-stress-levels-in-weird-ways-we-don-t-even-realise\">stress built up<\/a> from our jobs and the people involved in them. However, a surprising new study suggests that only a minority of people with burnout actually think their symptoms are due to their work.<\/p>\n<p>The research, which was led by a team from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), could challenge the conventional thinking about how people reach burnout, and how we might be able to protect against it.<\/p>\n<p>Less than 30 percent of the people surveyed blamed their job as the primary reason they felt burnt out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we hear the term \u201cburnout\u201d, most of us would think about working long hours, and the stress built up from our jobs and the people involved in them. However, a surprising new study suggests that only a minority of people with burnout actually think their symptoms are due to their work. The research, which [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1878],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}