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Burnout isn’t just an individual problem—here’s what managers can do
Friday, September 12, 2025
Burnout is more than just an employee wellness issue; it’s a workplace problem that affects productivity, morale, and retention.
Too often, the solution is framed as self-care. But telling employees to take more bubble baths or book yoga classes doesn’t address the bigger picture.
We use the term Burnout Burger—a simple but powerful framework—to describe that the individual is squeezed between the organizational and cultural layers:
- Organizational factors like workload, fairness, and control
- Cultural influences like norms around overwork or “earning rest”
- And the individual layer, where people often feel caught in the middle
As a leader, you have influence across all three levels. And when employees see that organizational and cultural changes are being made, they’re much more open to making changes themselves.
Below is a short video from our Manager Toolkit on the Burnout Burger. In this series of videos, we bring it all together—what it really takes to tackle burnout, and how our approach goes beyond surface-level advice to practical, science-backed action.
Ready to take real action?
Explore our full Manager Toolkit, which includes courses like Charge Your Battery (for employees and managers) and Burnout for Leaders (focused on culture and organizational change).
Get a tour of the Manager Toolkit HERE
Meet Dr. Dayna, Ph.D.
Dr. Dayna Lee-Baggley is a Registered Psychologist with two decades of professional experience in clinical psychology, health psychology, and organizational psychology. She has extensive applied experience and research knowledge on burnout, psychological safety in the workplace, behaviour and organizational change, and wellness leadership. She is an internationally recognized expert in human behavior. She conducts innovative research at Dalhousie and Saint Mary’s University, with a distinguished track record of 55 peer-reviewed publications and over 140 scholarly presentations. She is the author of "Healthy Habits Suck: How to get off the couch and live a healthy life even if you don’t want to"
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