How AI could help fight burnout
Burnout is constantly running out of work, emotionally controlled and struggling to do things effectively.
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Burnout is an increasing concern among industries, but artificial intelligence quietly changes the game.
Burnout, known as a “professional phenomenon” by the World Health Organization, is more than a personal issue – this is.
Accordingly 2025 Studies In the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, burnout costs US companies up to $ 5 million per year for an average US company with an average US company with an average US company with $ 4,000 to $ 21,000 per year or with 1,000 employees per year.
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Caroline Stokes
Leadership Strategist and Writer
Many companies are turning to AI vehicles such as Chatgpt and Copilot to fight burnout. They automate recurrent tasks, summarize the information, and help content and manage project management. A global work by Melbourne University and KPMG International More than 32,000 workers from 47 countries found that 58% of employees used AI in the workplace and used one -third weekly or daily.
Nevertheless, many workers still waste valuable time and spend 2.6 hours a day or 13 hours a week – about one third of the average working week – AI can easily handle tasks. A survey of Goto and Research Company Workplace Intelligence 2,500 employees and IT leaders around the world.
Headspace’s chief clinical officer. Jenna Glover described AI as a “very useful friend”.
“This can be a big assistant in terms of lighting, historically, what happened to the tasks that took a lot of cognitive loads,” CNBC Make It said.
How does AI help burnout?
Workplaces using AI tools decreased by 25% in emotional depletion, February 2025 survey 200 IT expert. AI Systems marked 30% of the participants as a risk of burnout, allowing the implementation of early intervention strategies, based on factors such as long hours and low participation.
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Instead of illuminating the load, it actually creates a place to put more on your plate.
Jenna Glover
Chief Clinical Officer at Headspace
Meanwhile, Headspace said that Glover can support AI’s regular workload controls, and that when tasks become unstable, they can offer pulse surveys to collect the flag and timely feedback-all valuable tools to protect the prosperity.
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Many companies are turning to AI vehicles such as Chatgpt and Copilot to fight burnout.
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Stokes said that employees who use AI to facilitate workloads tend to be more productive, to be more controlled in operational, emotional and cognitive areas and to support their leaders.
“A CEO, an integrated AI system, not only how to support its own mental health, burnout, but also to understand how to support the burnout and mental health of the people, no matter how early he can do, this ugly elephant in the room will no longer be.”
Some companies already use mental health technology. HeadSpace’s AI companion EBB was released among 2,000 businesses to assist the management of workplace stress, habit development and anxiety management.
But can AI be part of the problem?
It is clear that AI transforms the workplace – but the question of whether some employees are always better argues that they can push some employees towards burnout instead of helping them avoid it.
A recent survey He found that 45% of US workers using AI were more likely to live high burnout, and that 38% of technology can survive the same fate and 35% of users. The data comes from Quantum Workplace, one of the largest employee experience databases in the US, which is based on insights from more than 700,000 people in more than 8,000 organizations.
Using AI tools for a full working day may feel the same as spending nine hours in the gym, warn Stocks – emphasize the need to give time for the brain to rest, reset and recover.
This is after learning how to use the staff. AI literacy is another difficulty. All employees do not know how to use these tools effectively and add pressure on their existing workloads.
Stokes, “It is very difficult when we use a AI tool to continue, because everything is like an encyclopedia, ask something and do anything, evaluate anything, and you will only go down the final rabbit hole. Our brain still needs to rest.” He said.
He warns that companies relying on AI can be unintentionally fed burnout to replace the number of headcounts.
Some employees who use AI to increase productivity perform tasks faster – but they get more work. “Instead of illuminating the load, it actually creates space to put more space on your plate.” He said.
