Daisy Auger-Domínguez writes: “Workplace burnout is often discussed as if it were a single condition with a single solution: fewer hours, better boundaries, more resilience. That framing is incomplete and misleading. Burnout takes different forms depending on where someone sits in the organization; what they’re accountable for; and how much clarity, control, and moral alignment they have. Burnout is rarely a personal failure. It is usually a design failure. When capable, committed people are exhausted, the issue is not resilience—it is work engineered without regard for human limits and systems that quietly reward overextension.”
