With the normal pressures of work compounded by the pandemic, stress and burnout are proliferating in the business world. Even before Covid-19, stress and burnout were ravaging the health of Americans. The number of hours worked is said by the non-profit American Institute of Stress to be the main source of job stress and this makes work especially problematic in the United States where Americans have a work ethic that is second to none.A report a few years ago by the International Labor Organization showed that US workers averaged nearly 2,000 hours of work every year (40 hours per week x 52 …
