Field Notes
No wellness platitudes. No engagement-survey theater. Original research, operational frameworks, and the playbook behind BurnoutIQ — written for HR leaders, CHROs, and managers who have to act this quarter.
The numbers in your wellness vendor's pitch deck are usually outdated, often misattributed, and frequently irrelevant to your sector. These seven aren't.
Read this →Most burnout conversations fail because they're framed as personal disclosures. Reframed as renegotiations of scope and capacity, the same conversation works. Here's the script.
Read this →Healthcare burnout is at unprecedented levels — 50%+ of physicians, 60%+ of nurses by most major studies. The numbers are well documented. What's not documented is what to do that isn't another wellness app. Here's the briefing.
Read this →Quiet quitting is a Detachment behavior, not a burnout state. The distinction matters because the cures are opposite: one needs renegotiation, the other needs structural relief.
Read this →Managers are the most expensive and least supported employees on your roster. They burn out differently from individual contributors, and the lagging indicator that gets HR's attention is also the most expensive one — turnover. Here's how to catch it earlier.
Read this →Stress is an event. Burnout is a syndrome. Compassion fatigue is a trauma signature. They look identical from the outside and they need three completely different responses. Here's how to tell them apart.
Read this →The MBI is the gold standard for clinical burnout research. It is also expensive, licensed, and built for academia. Here is when a Pivot-authored alternative is the better fit — and when it absolutely isn't.
Read this →The instinct most managers reach for — an engagement survey, an open-ended pulse, a series of one-on-one check-ins — produces signals that are either too noisy or too aggregated to act on. Here is the playbook that works.
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