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Our understanding of work fatigue is evolving. UT L&D can help effective leaders and managers keep informed and prepared to take care of themselves and their teams. Visit our Work Fatigue resources page and read below to learn the latest on this important topic. But first, hear from our good friend and this month’s Manager in the Spotlight, Dr. Art Markman.

UT MANAGER SPOTLIGHT

ART MARKMAN, VICE PROVOST FOR ACADEMIC AFFAIRS, EXTENDED EDUCATION VENTURES

“Helping everyone at UT recognize their potential for advancement in their career is a great way to help retain your best people.”

Each month, UT L&D will spotlight a manager at UT using the same five questions to help other managers learn from each other and get a different perspective on managing at UT.

UT MANAGER SPOTLIGHT

THE CHANGING FACE OF WORK FATIGUE

How we look at exhaustion in the workplace is important. New language and different perspectives can help us understand what we are experiencing or witnessing in the workplace. The term “Burnout” as applied to workplace exhaustion has been around for more than 50 years, and people cutting back on the level of effort they put into their jobs was happening long before we ever started hearing about Quiet Quitting. But context matters. Recognizing patterns, symptoms, and causation of people struggling in the workplace is a key responsibility of management.

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YOU’VE BURNED OUT. NOW WHAT?

(THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION, SEPTEMBER, 2022)

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Before my burnout diagnosis I didn’t have a language or rationale for what was happening to me. The brain fog, decision fatigue, panic attacks, inability to do any work that wasn’t publicly performative, the solitaire addiction: What was happening to me?

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THE GREAT RESIGNATION BECOMES THE GREAT RESHUFFLE: WHAT EMPLOYERS CAN DO TO RETAIN WORKERS

(FORBES, APRIL, 2022)

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Make training & development part of the employee value proposition for all workers both full time and part time. Increasingly front-line workers and hourly workers see employer funded training & development as the best way to advance themselves.

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TURNS OUT THE GREAT RESIGNATION MAY BE FOLLOWED BY THE GREAT REGRET

(THR GUARDIAN, MARCH 2022)

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Are all these workers leaving their jobs for new jobs finding that the new jobs are that much better than their old jobs? That their new employers are that much better than their existing employers? Or is it possible that Joe is taking a new job that’s replacing Susan, who left that job for the same reason that Joe is leaving his job?

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THE ECONOMICS BEHIND 'QUIET QUITTING'—AND WHAT WE SHOULD CALL IT INSTEAD

(NPR, SEPTEMBER, 2022)

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Quiet quitting, in other words, is not really about quitting. It's more like a philosophy for doing the bare minimum at your job.

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QUIET QUITTING IS NOT THE SOLUTION FOR BURNOUT

(NEW YORK TIMES, SEPTEMBER, 2022)

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We each have the same 168 hours every week. But time is also all about the stories we tell ourselves. When life is full of have-to-dos, with only brief periods of downtime in between, we can feel beaten down by responsibilities.

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BEYOND BURNOUT

(THE NEW WAY WE WORK PODCAST, SEPTEMBER, 2022)

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Kate Davis hosts a live episode of The New Way We Work at Fast Company Innovation Festival. She talks about burnout and why so many employees are unhappy at work with Ludmila Praslova and Phoebe Gavin.

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