Here’s what makes work unhealthy

In their new book, David Allen and Edward Lamont break down why so many workers are experiencing burnout—and what employers can do to help.

When one of our clients joined the leadership team of an international financial institution based in Germany, there was a standing item on the executive team’s meeting agenda: burnout cases. That was costly from a time perspective, of course, but that they were spending time on it in each of their meetings was the least of the costs—human and financial—for the organization.