{"id":245040,"date":"2026-10-07T21:43:25","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T02:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/cutting-unnecessary-tasks-shows-surprising-links-to-greater-employee-exhaustion"},"modified":"2026-10-07T21:43:25","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T02:43:25","slug":"cutting-unnecessary-tasks-shows-surprising-links-to-greater-employee-exhaustion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/cutting-unnecessary-tasks-shows-surprising-links-to-greater-employee-exhaustion","title":{"rendered":"Cutting unnecessary tasks shows surprising links to greater employee exhaustion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cutting-unnecessary-tasks-shows-surprising-links-to-greater-employee-exhaustion2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ahead of World Mental Health Day on Oct. 10, attention is turning to the question of what causes psychological strain at work. A study by Bielefeld University shows that inappropriate tasks are not the only factor associated with exhaustion. Changes in day-to-day work can also leave employees feeling exhausted, even when the number of burdensome tasks decreases. Perceived uncertainty plays an important role.<\/p>\n<p>The study is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/02678373.2026.2615297\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Work &amp; Stress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahead of World Mental Health Day on Oct. 10, attention is turning to the question of what causes psychological strain at work. A study by Bielefeld University shows that inappropriate tasks are not the only factor associated with exhaustion. Changes in day-to-day work can also leave employees feeling exhausted, even when the number of burdensome [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245040","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=245040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}