These days news feeds are inundated with articles about burnout and quotes to help people stay afloat and recover. Indeed, burnout is the new pandemic. Numbers keep increasing despite all the initiatives put in place to prevent it.

In 2018, after five decades of research, the World Health Organisation classified burnout as an occupational syndrome. In the 1970ies, the first publications about burnout reported cases among professional carers such as medical staff or teachers. But in the past two decades, burnout has spread across all professions. Today it seems it spares no type of career.