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Feeling Burned Out at Work? It’s Not Your Fault, Psychologists Say in New Book

Authors of The Burnout Challenge argue it’s an organizational problem — and not too expensive to fix.

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A new book has a reassuring message for workers experiencing burnout: It isn’t your fault.

In The Burnout Challenge: Managing People’s Relationships with Their Jobs — published 25 years after their first book about the phenomenon— psychologists Christina Maslach and Michael Leiter want to set the record straight about why employees get fed up with work.