Main description:

This book offers an extensive look into the ways living through the COVID-19 pandemic has deepened our understanding of the crises people experience in their relationships with work. Leading experts explore burnout as an occupational phenomenon that arises through mismatches between workplace and individuals on the day-to-day patterns in work life.

By disrupting where, when, and how people worked, pandemic measures upset the delicate balances in place regarding core areas of work life. Chapters examine the profound implications of social distancing on the quality and frequency of social encounters among colleagues, with management, and with clientele. The book covers a variety of occupational groups such as those in the healthcare and education sectors, and demonstrates the advantages and strains that come with working from home. The authors also consider the broader social context of working through the pandemic regarding risks and rewards for essential workers. By focusing on changes in organisational structures, policies, and practices, this book looks at effective ways forward in both recovering from this pandemic and preparing for further workplace disruptions.

A wide audience of students and researchers in psychology, management, business, healthcare, and social sciences, as well as policy makers in government and professional organisations, will benefit from this detailed insight into the ways COVID-19 has affected contemporary work attitudes and practices.

Contents:

Introduction

Michael P. Leiter and Cary L. Cooper

1: High expectations and unreciprocated effort in societal exchange: Lessons from the pandemic about psychological forces that influence burnout

Rachel C. Sumner and Elaine L. Kinsella

2: Pandemic implications for six areas of worklife

Michael P. Leiter and Christina Maslach

3: Job burnout: The epidemic within a pandemic

Chris Mahar and Arla Day

4: What do we really understand about the relationship between physical activity and burnout?

Valerie Hervieux, Claude Fernet, and Caroline Biron

5: Teacher (Dis)connectedness and burnout during COVID-19

Laura Sokal, Lesley Eblie Trudel, and Jeff Babb

6: "To the last drop." The acceleration of the exhaustion process due to the new working ways imposed by COVID-19

Santiago Gascon, Maria Jose Chambel, and Angela C. Asensio

7: Hiding behind a mask: A multilevel perspective of burnout shame

Aristides I. Ferreira

8: COVID-19 impact on health care worker burnout: Insights from the areas of worklife model for job burnout

Colin P. West

9: Stress test: The impact of COVID on employee burnout in the Department of Veterans Affairs

Cheyna Brower, Sean Becker, and Katerine Osatuke

10: Working from home during a pandemic: A theoretical perspective on work-home spillover and risk of burnout

Igor Portoghese and Maura Galletta

11: Work/home spillover when working from home

Oi-ling Siu and Nuoxun Lin

12: Return to work and the workplace during the pandemic: Navigating new normal(s)

Jonathon R. B. Halbesleben