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Worker Burnout Is Even Worse Than at the Peak of the Pandemic

Economic unrest, layoff fears and more stringent return-to-office policies are unsettling white-collar employees globally. 

Striking nurses on a picket line outside University College London Hospital. 

Striking nurses on a picket line outside University College London Hospital. 

Photographer: Carlos Jasso/Bloomberg
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Workers of the world are more exhausted than ever.

More than 40% of people with desk jobs feel burned out at work, a pandemic-era high, according to a survey released Wednesday by Future Forum, a research consortium backed by Salesforce Inc.’s Slack Technologies. The pain is particularly acute outside the US, where the burnout rate has been rising enough to offset slight improvements seen by American workers.