Understanding and Overcoming Employee and Parental Burnout

In Australia, parents with children 18 years of age and under make up a third of the workforce with 75.6% of mothers employed and 90.4% of fathers. This significant cohort are in the impossible position of trying to keep up with the many demands of their jobs and parenting simultaneously.

Like many people leaders, you may be dealing with the high cost of lost productivity and employee turnover due to parental and employee burnout. As a manager, do you fully understand the financial, social and cultural costs of employee burnout?  Perhaps you’re aware or experiencing for yourself, that navigating the many stressful demands of work and family can be overwhelming and can lead to burnout.

Employee burnout remains a widespread and serious issue. The many stressful demands of managing work and family, financial stresses and other daily challenges have significantly impacted the mental health of employees with caring responsibilities.

Data shows working parents are suffering the most. The findings from a recent TELUS Health Research Brief on The Mental Health of Working Parents is clear:

• “Working parents have consistently lower mental health scores, and the impact of mental health on work productivity is also greater for parents than non-parents.”

As a result, the majority of working parents miss work at least once per month to manage their children’s or their mental health.

By attending this session, people leaders will understand the financial, social and cultural costs of employee burnout and the steps they can take to support employee and family wellbeing and work productivity.